{"id":102,"date":"2006-08-09T21:24:21","date_gmt":"2006-08-10T02:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weeklyrob.dreamhosters.com\/?p=102"},"modified":"2006-08-09T21:24:21","modified_gmt":"2006-08-10T02:24:21","slug":"whose-%e2%80%9cbodies%e2%80%9d-are-they","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=102","title":{"rendered":"Whose \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Bodies\u00e2\u20ac\u009d are They?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>M<span>aybe you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve heard of the amazing <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bodiestheexhibition.com\/intro.html\" title=\"http:\/\/www.bodiestheexhibition.com\/intro.html\">Bodies<\/a><span> exhibition, where you can see actual human bodies displayed in ways unimaginable a few years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span>Using a process called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153plastination,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the anatomists can preserve bodies in perfect condition, allowing the paying visitor to see humanity in all its pristine complexity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 17px\" class=\"paragraph Body\">It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a fascinating exhibit, and well worth taking a few hours to go see.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 17px\" class=\"paragraph Body\">But where are these bodies actually coming from? The Bodies Web site says that they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re from the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Dalian Medical University of Plastination Laboratories\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in China. Apparently, the university, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153legally obtains the bodies from various medical schools and universities.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 17px\" class=\"paragraph Body\">Now, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153legally\u00e2\u20ac\u009d includes obtaining bodies from Jane and John Doe&#8217;s that the cops turn over. That already makes me uneasy, because I imagine some family who will never know what happened to their brother, while I pay $20 to see his corpse made to look as though it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s shooting a basketball.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none\" class=\"paragraph Body\"><span>But according to a recent <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/08\/08\/business\/worldbusiness\/08bodies.html?ex=1155182400&amp;en=95ad4ada9eba77c5&amp;ei=5087%0A\" title=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/08\/08\/business\/worldbusiness\/08bodies.html?ex=1155182400&amp;en=95ad4ada9eba77c5&amp;ei=5087%0A\">New York Times article<\/a><span>, it may be worse than that. Officials at the University and the Customs Bureau in Dalian said they had \u00e2\u20ac\u0153no records showing the supplier&#8230;having acquired bodies and then transporting them to exhibitions abroad.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none\" class=\"paragraph Body\">And the university spokesperson said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know where the bodies came from.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none\" class=\"paragraph Body\">So, how much, if anything, are the suppliers paying for bodies? Enough to feed a family for a while? Enough to motivate a murder of a homeless or deranged person? Enough for the cops to hand over one of the vast number of people that China executes every year?<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none\" class=\"paragraph Body\">We don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know. What we do know is that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s big business. As far as I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m concerned, when it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s big business (especially in China), all bets are off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve heard of the amazing Bodies exhibition, where you can see actual human bodies displayed in ways unimaginable a few years ago. Using a process called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153plastination,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the anatomists can preserve bodies in perfect condition, allowing the paying visitor to see humanity in all its pristine complexity. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a fascinating exhibit, and well worth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-science-and-such"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}