Would you consider donating your body to benefit the Body World Exhibition?

Question

Just wondering if you guys are willing to donate your corpses to benefit the curious folks as well as Gunter Von Hagen's bank account......

Answer 1

I wouldn't donate my body to Body Worlds. I just don't think it's an important enough cause. It seems rather frivolous, actually. I plan on donating my body to biomedical research.

Answer 2

I don't think so. I hope to save lives with mine instead of entertaining. I've already set up my 3 part post death plan. 1 Donate all viable organs. 2 Whatever is left donate to Medical or Forensic research 3 When they're done cremation == I have no problem at all with Body Worlds or people who chose that. It is a waste if the organs are not donated first.

Answer 3

the body world exhibit is unbelievable! I would not have a problem donating my body and I do see it as science. The exhibit was quite inspiring on so many levels. Looking at the functions of the human body makes you realize how insanely spiritual the world is. It's amazing that while all of those parts are funtioning together to sustain life and mobilizing us----we have a brain that is beyond comprehension.

Answer 4

I'm donating my body to Science Fiction.

Answer 5

I've already signed up to "You're welcome to any bits of me you might find useful, once I've finished with them."
Though the donor card phrases it a little more fomally.

So it would be a bit like a jigsaw with a few pieces missing. I don't think Body World would be interested.

Answer 6

Gunter Von Hagen, created "Body Worlds: The Anatomical Exhibition of Real Human Bodies" (plasticized real humans who donated their bodies, after death, for public display of muscles and organs for museums). He advanced science in the same way that Nazi doctors did, with the same callous disregard for the sanctity of life. Much of the world was silent as throngs of supporters shouted praises for Hitler as Hitler tortured to death millions of Jews in Germany and German controlled Poland. Dr. Mengele, the doctor of death, was allowed to die of old age in South America (and likely Hitler did, as well, despite unfounded rumors of his suicide in his German bunker). Simon Weisenthal was thwarted by the Argentinian government and given no aid by the world to find Mengele. Nazi colonel Hubertus Strughold (Luftwaffe under the auspices of Hermann Goring's Ministry of Aviation) had government sanctioned human freezing experiments in the Dachau Concentration Camp in which his some of his unwilling prisoners died. Strughold created the "altitude chamber" and studied the "time of useful consciousness." Strughold continued his insane, cruel, and inhuman experimentation in the United States, having been accepted in Project Paperclip. Strughold was buried in the Arlington National Cemetery with honors as the Father of Space Medicine, and a Strughold Award was created in his memory for advancements. Strughold's assistant, Hermann Becker-Freyseng, for whom Strughold wrote affidavits, was deemed a war criminal (for "crimes against humanity)" for following Strughold's orders.

President Franklin Roosevelt, reticent about declaring war against Nazis, turned back a ship of Jewish refuges who had to turn back to certain doom. As the world looked on in horror, Hitler received cheers in Germany.

Few spoke out about the atrocities. Can we weigh the little that high school kids learn about science against macabre displays of human bodies? Knowledge vs. gore?

Certainly we need doctors. We need people who study medicine to cure illnesses. We don't need fiends who get thrills at dismembered corpses. Science has bounds. Scientists must know that research could lead to human destruction. Scientists must temper their zeal with humanity.

Answer 7

I'd rather feed the starving worms of this world, thank you very much...

Answer 8

I have nothing to be ashamed of if you know what i mean, so sure.