QUOTE(Rhiannon @ Mar 2 2010, 08:07 PM)

What's wrong with real bodies?
I'm well aware that without the soul and the beat of the heart the body is a meaningless assembly of organic matter and water. However, I do believe that we should nonetheless treat it with respect; it represents an individual which has passed away and whom we cannot interact with any more. The only thing that remains of it are the memories, and the corpse is in a way a manifestation of them. To treat a cadaver with disrespect is to abuse these memories, to mutilate it is to spit into the face of the dead unable to defend itself.
In my opinion these cadavers are treated disrespectfully. Even if it was their owners' own will for them to be used this way, they're nonetheless exposed to the voyeurism of random people who have no relation to the dead, have never known them, and bear no memories of them. Further, to flaunt them in such a manner the viewer might be tempted to forget their nature and see them as but objects neglecting to pay their respect for them as the remainders of a human life.
Since I abstained from it I don't know if the donors' names are nowhere to be seen though; if they are, I would think a bit better of it though.
Those who knew the people in their lifetime might feel terrified by the sight of the body, that which they saw and felt, of this person in their memories in such a bizarrely distorted state. Every cut inflicted to the body must be one to the feelings that rest within the memories of those who knew it in its lifetime!
This post has been edited by P.P.A.: Mar 2 2010, 09:25 PM