The fact that he's getting rich from exhibiting dead bodies
[Edited 1/30/07 11:03am]

Swordfish. Saw it already once, a long time back. I even think in the cinema. With this totally kewl explosion scene. Again; if it ain't real it's fun.

Dewrede said:

But the dead bodies don't care how much money he makes. They're helping him and went into it knowing that would be the case before they were dead. Plus they probably could care less about money and who has it from where they are now. Do you blame the donors too then?

Oh and I just don't really understand what is wrong with people looking at bodies on display. I mean, it's a human body. We all have one. They display mummies in museums all over the world, and surely someone is making money off of that somehow. Why is that different? Why is it ok if they're really long, long dead, and didn't give their permission, and not ok for the newer ones who wished to be displayed?
[Edited 1/30/07 11:16am]

minneapolisgenius said:

I know , i just think it isn't right

I find it creepy

Yeah , but not when it's real

This show ----> http://www.channel4.com/s...index.html

It will be on again on channel tien tonight! Don't miss it if you can handle watching "gory" stuff.

Gunther Von Hagens himself (the man who is behind body plastination and the Body Worlds exhibits) will be doing an anatomy class on TV.

I've watched it before and it's truly amazing. He works with cadavers and shows everything from opening the body to reveal the respiratory system, the circulatory system, the reproductive system, etc. on non-plastinated cadavers.

Not for people who get grossed out by those things though. It's basically watching an autopsy where NOTHING is edited out.

Don't miss it!!!!!

It's so cool to see how everything in the human body is "put together" and how it all works.

minneapolisgenius said:

I really find this work and the learning opportunities that it presents to be quite fascinating. I've been to two of Plastination exhibitions as well, one was Prof. Von Hagens' own.

Very intriguing stuff

senik said:

It is. I saw it in Brussels about 5 years ago, and then just this past summer in Mpls.

minneapolisgenius said:

(WesT LDN [Sorry, I had to get that in ] ).

Dewrede said:

That's the best kind of creepy.

In other news, I can't believe I have a flaming thread. Of course, it's all mostly just me posting on it, but who cares?

Fantastic series, not to be missed !!

It's better then watching any CSI serie, which basically is the same as The Bodies, but The Bodies is for real.

Making money ... b*llsh*t ..... even your undertaker is making money when you are death....just to burn you for like an hour..... Euro 2000.... now that's an interesting business.

Senseo.....Val, never knew you actually drank coffee..... next time I will make you a good old pot of coffee....Dutch way, with some Buisman adjusted ....

Anyways.

I watched The Gilmore Girls. Luke and Lorelai broke up and in the timespan of two weeks, Lorelai is back with Christopher (hottie!) but she does not seem happy.

Rory also does not look happy. She seems too glamorous. She needsa scruffy look and to walk around in music t-shirts, damnit!

I love how you act as if I'm jacking YOUR thread or something with my anatomy stories, and it's really all about The Gilmore Girls.

minneapolisgenius said:

Yeah. Like I said.

Anyways...

I also wathced a bit of Swordfish, but then there were commercials and I zapped away and I msised the awfully cool explosion. THat totally bummed me out.

HamsterHuey said:

I didn't watch anything last night. Oh except for one about a really obese woman who had one of those full body lifts after losing a bunch of weight.

minneapolisgenius said:

If I came across that while zapping it would take me ONE nano-second to zap on.

HamsterHuey said:

said by the man who started this thread

http://www.prince.org/msg/100/215968

and even uploaded some pictures .....

minneapolisgenius said:

Yeah. Like I said.

Anyways...

I also wathced a bit of Swordfish, but then there were commercials and I zapped away and I msised the awfully cool explosion. THat totally bummed me out.

HamsterHuey said:

I saw the explosion!!!!! It was in the beginning of the movie!!!! After that I was waiting for Halle Berry's $200.000 boob-shot, I can't stand Travolta.....so I fell asleep on my couch.....waking up seeing a schoolbus hanging on a helicopter, I had missed the boobshot! THAT totally bummed me out!!!!!

abierman said:

So we both missed the shot we wanted.

Back to our porn stash it is then...

minneapolisgenius said:

Aye, Prof. Von Hagens had one exhibition at the Atlantis Gallery, Brick la., east London (EasT LDN [Sorry, I had to get that in ] ). I saw one this summer called "The Body" in London's Earl's Court. Great works.