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From:	MadPole	2002-07-20 05:26:31
Subject:	Theatre Of Life ( part 1)
Comment:	Despite that I have not been to exhibition yet, I am fascinated by it too and I think Eadon described it in a truly wonderful way. This article is multitude of “nails on the head”. Thank You Sir! I don’t agree with the idea of presenting pictures or life history of people who were owners of those bodies though. This is artistic and educational anatomy exhibition, this exhibition is about human bodies, not humans themselves. You wereren’t “gazing at actual people”, You were gazing at their bodies. I have learnt a lot about process of “plastination” but it does not explain one issue. Imagine a basketball player, crouching in tension with ball in one hand, his legs mussles bulging. How to get corpse into such position and more importantly, how to make the mussles of the dead body bulge in the right way is what I am fascinated about. For it appears to me that this is another aspect of Prof Gunther von Hagens genius. Not only he found a way to preserve the living tissue to its microscopic detail. Not only he found a way of presenting human corpses in such way so nobody thinks of them as “corpses” anymore. But obviously he is also an expert in living human body too, the play and interaction of different mussles, depending on the position and activity. He somehow managed to re-create and capture the dynamics of human body.
From:	MadPole	2002-07-20 05:29:19
Subject:	Theatre Of Life ( part 2)
Comment:	This exhibition is not just about anatomy of human body, it is also about human body in motion. Prof Gunther von Hagens turned those bodies into “actors”, he created living theatre after death. And perhaps this is why we find hard to think of those exhibits as “corpses” or even “bodies”, they express certain warmth and emotions, they screem with dynamics of life. And this, in a way, makes me realize that although the owners of those bodies are daed, the bodies themselves gained life now. And that is a true master on Prof Gunther von Hagens’ part.
From:	Chris	2002-07-22 07:23:18
Subject:	Temple of sinew
Comment:	Great article James. I'm waiting for the exhibition to come to Atlanta or Charlotte, cities near where I live. It's a must-see.
From:	Rajiv Ruwala	2003-07-19 06:48:53
Subject:	Disections
Comment:	I dont know if you are aware of htis, but many medical and dental students (I am a dental student) have the oppertunity to disect human bodies as part of training to study human anatomy. I also went to body worlds, but mainly as help for me to revise for my exams! and i think that some of the exhibitions are very well shown. However, if you ever get the chance, there is NOTHING like disecting itself, it is quite amazing, especially when you are cutting and looking at how it all fit together yourself, as well as feeling the texture, of the different body parts- u may feel that this is gruesome, but you have to realise, many of todays surgeons use feel as 1 of the best ways to determine what different tissues are! also u may not realise this but the knife in disection is not used a lot! the best and most used tool- is actually your fingers! (blunt dissection)- this helps to preserve the delecate tissues, eg nerves. To disect, is an AMAZING experience in my opinion, and if anybody should (i dont see how or why!) get the oppertunity, you MUST try it.
From:	Jakal	2004-01-22 10:16:04
Subject:	Body Worlds
Comment:	I think this was done for man to know more about hisself. I think the exhibit is more to inform people than to 'gross them out'. I find it fascinating to know more about what is underneath my own body, without having to be cut open. I wish more people would try to understand than to object.
From:	Ray	2004-02-11 20:58:26
Subject:	Wow.
Comment:	Well, I don;t know about the scientific aspect although the artforms are done by a scientist. They do seem a lot like an art form. I think they're beautiful. I especially like the 'sculpt' he did of the blood vessle head. And the people DO seem to not be really dead. If it were just purely science, then we could have just regular bodies displaied for that, not something that is so well balanced and full of movement and life.
From:	pete	2004-10-03 19:49:37
Subject:	15 million
Comment:	Just a note to anyone reading this page, after London the exhibition moved back to Germany for a year where will over 1.6 million people visited it. Double the amount of people that visited it in the year it was in london. Now it is in Los Angeles. Overall it is the most succesfull travelling exhibition in the world with over 15 Million have visited it, since it started. Now there are several knock off exhibitions, all set up the same was but with much lesser quality work on display. Von hagens is a hero of the modern age in my view.
From:	Craig Olsen	2004-11-16 06:18:38
Subject:	Evolution & Christians
Comment:	I am a Christian, and I can tell you that I did not choose to be. Once chosen to be a Christian, I now understand how wrong evolution is. Adaptation, perhaps, but not the ever-tweeked theory of evolution as we know it. Until you are chosen to be a Christian, you will not understand this.
From:	Dan	2005-08-23 18:34:48
Subject:	Christianity and evolution
Comment:	As a Christian, I have one question. If man evolved from primates, why are there still monkeys? If we evolved from one cell creatures, why do we have sexual intercourse instead of using cell division to recreate? To say Christianity should embrace evolution as part of the faith is like saying the Army should embrace the terrorists and include them in our security. That is counter to the foundations of Christianity. I think the Body Works exhibits confirms creation. It is very awe inspiring and I wish it were coming closer so I could experience it.
From:	liz	2005-10-19 04:50:17
Subject:	well said
Comment:	I had the pleasure of seeing the Bodyworlds 2 exhibit in Toronto Canada October 16, 2005. I have been trying to explain the exhibit to my friends and not doing a good job of it. I am going to copy your review and give it to my friends/family to read, as you captured exactly how I felt while viewing the exhibit. Well said! I wish I were able to explain it as eloquently as you did.
From:	Lee Ann Napierskie	2005-11-21 12:26:16
Subject:	Exhibition
Comment:	I was in Cleveland on Business this summer and heard about the exhibition at the Science Center, had to see it. It was the most interesting exhibition I have ever seen. People think it's gross when you talk about it, but it really wasn't. I especially liked the pregnant woman and the development of the fetus. Bravo!!!!!!!!
From:	Bill Burr	2005-11-22 13:36:22
Subject:	The Rock
Comment:	OnAPrtyRck
From:	nicola	2005-12-29 17:39:33
Subject:	religious beliefs
Comment:	personally, i object towards the christians comment towards evolution. intelligent design is so obviously off the wall that i could just as easily suggest that theres a flying banana somewhere that creates us. but who are you to object, im entitled to my own opinion right?? and then i start to include people in this religion of the flying banana and there you go, a religion just believing something like christianity does is created. and for primates to evolve, you can leave species of the original animal behind. its so obvious humans evolved form them, look at it, theres proof. is there any proof of god? no. people just think there is because they're imagining it.
From:	Shawn Webster	2006-02-19 07:26:27
Subject:	bodyworlds
Comment:	I saw Bodyworlds today. While I wasn't blown away, I still think it was something that was important to see. I wasn't blown away as I'd seen a few documentaries and news items on it already and some of the impact was taken away. I went with my wife and two young daughters 3 and 7.(their ages not their names). My wife had no interest in going but because my older daughter expressed an interest, and I wanted to see it too, she went. She doesn't handle what goes on under the skin well, so it was a bit of a heebee jeebee thing for her. But in the end she still acknowledged it's teaching values. Even when my daughter accidently bumped the display and the lungs jiggled and brought the reality aspect back. My daughter was enthusiastic at the beginning but she quickly decided that it ws gross, but still interesting. I, of course, was fascinated with the whole thing, although I missed/skipped the fetuses to protect my daughter from the reality that babies can die too. She's not ready to process that yet. But are any of us? All the internal organs and stuff, while being interesting, don't do much for me. I can take or leave it. The artistry of the posed bodies is what made the show for me. Especially the figure skaters. They were posed so well that even being skinless didn't detract from their elegance of form. Maybe even added to it. I often wondered while looking around if these people were ever or had ever done the things they were now being imortalized for. Had this female and male ever skated before? Had the ballerina ever danced before? The images of today are rich in my mind and I'm assuming they will be for along time. If you get the chance to go, you simply must.
From:	Sweta	2006-02-26 06:32:12
Subject:	pregnancy exhibit
Comment:	I went to the exhibit myself and I agree that it was fascinating but shocking to view everything in complete detail.
From:	Margary	2006-09-28 21:20:07
Subject:	The body exhibit
Comment:	I am a massage therapist and live in Miami where I just had the wonderful opportunity to see the incredible complexity, strength, vulnerability and beauty of our human body. The exhibit is just magnificent! After the strong impact of the bodies in motion, I took the time to see all the internal organs in details and was struck by the similarities some of them have to marine forms, specially the lungs and brain. I still do not quite understand the technique used by Professor Gunther to separate the circulatory system from the rest of the body… Wanting to read more about the exhibit lead me to this site. You have done an extraordinary job describing the exhibit and your experience. I hope that like you did, many families will visit it together. I praise professor Gunther for this incredible acheivement. Margary Chamy
From:	Bruce	2008-04-29 16:27:52
Subject:	Intricate designs of our Creator
Comment:	I saw Body Worlds at our local museum. It was amazing. The complexity of the body is breathtaking and confirmed my understanding that we are created. How marvelous are His (God's) works! All those systems in the body which work so closely together and rely so greatly on each other just to operate and to function properly. Did you ever investigate the process of a woman going through her cycle and becoming pregnant? One event waits for signals from a previous event. The hormones released at a certain time will trigger the next event. The cells of the newly fertilized egg are the same until a signal comes for them to become specific cells for a specific purpose. It truely is an awe inspiring event! I am sorry for those who can't see and appreciate the design in all this and they hold onto the ever changing theories of evolution. I hope their eyes will be opened some time soon. There is no proof for evolution. As for commonalities as a proof or sign of evolution, they are simply common concepts of design which work well in many differing animals and organisms.