Did I do and say those things? Yes...Yes, I did.: Body Worlds (follow up)

I went.

I saw.

I walked around with my hand over my mouth in complete awed wonder.

Note to people thinking about going to this:
Do NOT wear high heels.

Yowch.

And this is old news, but ooooh. my... gawsh!

Moving on...

Try packing yourself into this exhibit with about 400+ people all at once.
I'm actually really glad I went alone, because I could weave in and out of each display fairly quicky and easily.

It doesn't really register when you're looking at the complete forms that this was once a living being. It's such a science project, and with the skin completely removed (i know... it sounds sick!), it looks more like some science construction.

Or, as it were... think back to 9th grade Biology when you discected a frog.

If you can handle that... you can definately handle this.

They had individual organs (contained in a glass case -- liver, pancreas), blood vessels (sealed in position in water-logged, glass containers) and entire body constructs that were completely touchable.

Each posed body showed off different things... a skateboarder, dancer, yoga... some guy stretching (fully relaxed) in the morning.... body splices (seperated into 8+ parts), and more body splices (of the entier system... blood and all... that I thot was behind a case, but was hanging freely just in front of me. oish!)

It’s so surreal that you don’t get scared, but on a few body splices (one in particular of a man seperated into about 10 parts), the doctors/creators left the skin on two of the pieces, so you could see what the man looked like before he was donated for plastination.

Exhibits where the hair and eyelashes were still intact were strange, but
The only really disturbing thing was when the skin/face/hair was left on the body... because then the exhibit's main foundation became reality... and you realized that this used to be a living, breathing, human being.

Hidden off toward the end was a woman who died at five months pregnant. Her kidney was removed to show the fetus still inside of her… when you went around to her back side, you could see her blackened lung (Odd how you can develop anger to someone that is no longer alive for having such disregard for a teeny little thing...but maybe she was a smoker before she had the baby and quit during pregnancy…there was no summary of how she passed).

In this area, there was also glass jars and wires displaying fetuses from 4 weeks all the way to 29 weeks. I would really like the imput of someone who is pro-abortion and has seen this display, because it's pretty apparent that this could easily change a persons stand on the issue...

Probably the most impressive was a display called "Body Exploded."
Just as in art, it is all in the presentation/placement -- and this particular one screamed creativity.

Imagine a grill plate with... jeez.... probably 2000+ (no exageration) different strings hung from the highly placed piece of steel.

Sort of puppet like... Except here, we have each organ/muscle/bone hanging individually from each string.

This display was "Exploded" in that each piece of this human body was placed in it's appropriate place, but spread out massively (so a body that only took up 5'9", 150 lbs stretched into a 15 ft x 6 ft box).

Amazing.

I was so taken back by how this had to have been put together... hung so carefully... it had to have been on par with the worlds most impossible puzzle.

If you have a weekend free sometime before the end of july - go see it. IF not, travel somewhere to see it... if still not... then go to Body Worlds three... Hopefully, they'll have some more 'lecture' style displays...

There was a guy at the end who was instructing me on the plastination proccess, as well as another teaching me about pace makers.

I felt way more involved... and learned a lot more... but maybe that's just my own personal learning style... I'd love if they had more of that in the exhibit :-)

Here are some more photos :