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Cat
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posted November 13, 2002 01:07 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Cat     Edit/Delete Message
I have just read this article on the internet and can't believe it ......ewwwww

What're everyone's thoughts on this??

Here's the article....

£12-A-HEAD TO WATCH BODY BEING SLICED OPEN

TICKETS have gone on sale for the first public dissection of a human body for 170 years, with up to 500 people expected to attend.

The live post-mortem examination will be performed by Professor Gunther von Hagens, the German doctor who opened his controversial Body Worlds exhibition in Britain.

Further controversy is expected with his dissection of a 33-year-old German woman, but the professor said the people who visited his exhibition welcomed the idea.

He said there had already been a huge amount of interest in the £12 tickets for next Wednesday's autopsy at the Old Truman Brewery in Brick Lane, east London.

He said the examination would be carried out in a totally professional and dignified way.

"People are becoming more and more interested in their bodies and how they work.

"Body Worlds has brought the message to Britain that the body's interior is not ugly if it is preserved and presented properly," he said.

Professor von Hagens said the woman whose body was being used in the autopsy and her family had given their consent.

He said he and his two assistants at the dissection hoped to discover the cause of death, but there were no suspicious circumstances and the body had been released by the coroner in Germany.

"She had epilepsy and died in June. It is possible that she died in an epileptic seizure so we will take a special interest in the brain," he said.

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Bissie
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posted November 13, 2002 01:28 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Bissie     Edit/Delete Message
OH, Sue,
HOW interesting is that
I would attend with mucho pleasure ..
although I may puke a couple of times during the process...
the damned Virgo curiousity

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Donna
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posted November 13, 2002 02:08 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Donna     Edit/Delete Message
Hi Sue,

I have seen several post mortems and if one does not have the stamina to separate the personal from the scientific, it can be a very squeamish affair.

When it is a controlled situation, that is physicians, student nurses, medical students, forensics officers etc, even then, you will have the fainting, the emesis, the visceral reactions to the visual stimulation.
Though all medical students have their cadavers they dissect for learning purposes, they are well preserved, quite unlike a fresh autopsy specimen.

One wonders what type of people would gather to witness that. Macabre, curiosity seekers, human interest or what?

I don't know, it just seems so improper in one sense, but again, everyone has a body and to know about it, is the ideal. But there are plenty of books and literature available.

In my years of nursing, I have always been shocked at how many people do not know about their bodies or parts, the functioning of the organs, etc.

It doesn't matter how dignified and professional the dissection would be carried out, the general layman, not having much experience along those lines, could very well not handle it with great ease.

Well, those are my thoughts, but everyone has the right to choose whether they would like to experience this or not. I would not want to be the one to not give them that choice.

Donna

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Cat
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posted November 13, 2002 04:48 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Cat     Edit/Delete Message
Bissie
Now why did I know you'd find this interesting
Hmmm yes I can seriously relate to the "puking" comment

Hi Donna
I didn't know you were a nurse.

A friend of mine is a surgeon and one of the directors at the hospital where he operates once said to me how impressive my friend was to watch when he was operating. The director said his regard for my friend as a surgeon was exceptional and also said "you should come and watch him operate" Obviously this is not the norm but in certain cases it is allowed and accepted (obviously with the patients consent).
I said.....I don't think so - I'd end up passed out on the floor and so become the patient!
Apparently there is very little blood during an operation - so I was assured it was not like a TV drama! Anyway I declined the offer.....

I guess in a post mortum the "lack of blood" would also apply? But I still think I'd be very squeamish.

I too wonder what type of people would gather to witness this public disection. Part of me would want to go to observe the "crowd" that had wanted to attend. (I'm reading the most fantastic book at the moment......Jigsaw by Paul Briton - he's a criminal psychologist)

I too feel in some ways that it just seems so improper - and also I think £12 is soo little money to watch a Human Being, being disected. I'm confused with my own thoughts here as I feel a life must be worth more than that. But then I go into the fact that the body is just our overcoat (shell) and so not really that important (as opposed to our soul - which is very important).

I too have always been shocked at how many people (and I include myself in this) do not know about their bodies or parts, the functioning of the organs, etc.

I guess I'd like to be "a fly on the wall" to watch the observers (in order to understand why they are there) but not watch the actual disection as I know I would become emotionally involved with the corpse and their loss of life (if that makes sense).
Sue

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Bissie
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posted November 13, 2002 11:48 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Bissie     Edit/Delete Message
Jigsaw by Paul Briton ...I am going to buy this book asap, sounds exactly what I want to read at the moment.

Sue, don`t be surprised I am willing to attend such operation. Not only I am willing but I may even fight to go there, unfortunately nothing like that happens in ATL. I know very well what every part of my body stands for, i just never seen it in actual size, form, look.
I would be grateful if i could see a damaged by cigarettes and drugs lungs and livers, I guess that will make me to stop smoking
I am so damn curiose about everything in the human nature, I think i can perform the surgery myself. Although i have problem stepping on an ant that is giggling over my keybord, for example. LOL
just talking....

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Cat
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posted November 14, 2002 04:07 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Cat     Edit/Delete Message
Hi Bissie
Sorry, I somehow didn't type the full book title.....a Virgo making a mistake

It's called "The Jigsaw Man" by Paul Briton.
Sue

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