Anyone free next Saturday to go see this?
www.visitlondon.com/bodyworlds/
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 15:54, 28 replies, latest was 17 years ago)

I've seen this
It's awesome.
(MyFakeName, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 15:57, Reply)

wanna go again?

( fuck shit up the best you never had, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 16:06, Reply)

I'd like to but I wont be around

( Captain V, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 15:58, Reply)

yeah
you're a bit tied up this weekend.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 15:59, Reply)

Bit more info than I needed, but good for you guys ,)

( fuck shit up the best you never had, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 16:06, Reply)

so MJ is fulfilling the terms of his contract after all!

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 16:01, Reply)

eeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

( Lisette von Falcon, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 16:03, Reply)

Why ewww?
I think it's fascinating
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 16:06, Reply)

It is fascinating
But I'm busy then, sorry!
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 16:11, Reply)

it makes me want to boik
well done on being able to stomach it
( Lisette von Falcon, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 16:12, Reply)

It's kinda necessary for my job
the fluid move around a lot more when they're alive ,)
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 16:13, Reply)

I have a friend
who's on the Human Tissue Authority board. She had to inspect this to make sure it complied. She said the thing she found disturbing was that the women in it were posed quite sexually.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 16:12, Reply)

But...hang on a second
There is such a thing as the human tissue authority board? What do they do?
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 16:14, Reply)

Yup, there is.
http://www.hta.gov.uk/

The Board is government appointed and they do white papers, policy decisions and advise on regulations and the like.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 16:31, Reply)

That's really interesting, thanks CHCB

( fuck shit up the best you never had, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 16:42, Reply)

I find
the "unnamed" bodies Von Hagens procured from the Soviet and Chinese governments early in his career slightly more disturbing. Although they have apparently all been removed from the show and cremated now.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 16:16, Reply)

I couldn't look at the site long enough to figure it out, but, they're not real bodies are they?

( Lisette von Falcon, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 16:17, Reply)

Yes they are
he does this weird plasicising thing to preserve them.
(Bazongaloid, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 16:18, Reply)

oh my fucking god

( Lisette von Falcon, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 16:22, Reply)

There used to be a program on C4 on real autopsies
is this that same bloke?
(smathels left-wing not feckin' chicken wing, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 16:23, Reply)

same guy

( fuck shit up the best you never had, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 16:24, Reply)

Yeah, I saw them at a show I went to in the states. They were removed a few days later

( fuck shit up the best you never had, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 16:23, Reply)

If I had any money whatsoever
I would love to see that. But I don't, so sorry :(
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 16:24, Reply)

I'm up for it:

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 16:31, Reply)

Awesome

( fuck shit up the best you never had, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 16:43, Reply)

*adds to calindar*
=D
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 16:57, Reply)

After seeing this I was going to donate my corpse
But it turns out you have to pay for the privilege! So I donated my cadaver to science instead.
(MyFakeName, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 16:52, Reply)

I went when it was in Manchester last summer
It's cool...but in a slightly creepy way. I pottered round round for hours, fascinated...reading all the accompanying notes and peering carefully at all the exhibits. It really is very interesting.

...Until I was quite forcibly hit by the realisation that these 'things' all used to be people. It kind of squicked me out a bit.

But yeah. Go. It's incredible.
(berk, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 16:59, Reply)