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Plastination. The preservation of human bodies by injecting a combination of silicone and preserving chemicals to keep a cadaver from decomposing so that it can be used for the purpose of medical research. A technique once developed in Germany for medical studies is now a wide spreading trend used to help educate the public by letting them view cadavers frozen in their current states. Placed into museums in a range of ages, gender, and size many countries have adopted this technique of public education, but there’s been controversy that questions the morals of displaying the dead.
Today’s raising awareness is about the corruption of morals behind plastination, those who are being involuntarily harvested for these displays, and those subjectively forced into explicit poses deemed unfit for scientific research.
The basic concept behind these museums was to further inform the public of a human’s basic anatomy. It gives them a close up view of the preserved structures of humans instead of flipping through hand drawn diagrams or old photos in a textbook for studying. All this seems well, that is, if the bodies were used in such a way, but things have changed since the idea was born.
In the plastination museums, they have cut away and changed the shape of the human body forming it into an art piece rather than an atomically correct body. How are we to learn about anatomy if the human body has been altered and changed? This is not learning, but a way to sate human curiosity at a grotesque level. Cutting away and fixing anatomy, the artists think of funny poses for the dead and display them like a comedy, and what’s worse is they now have museums expressing positions of sex. What is meant to be intimate between two people has been tainted by the twisted perversion of corrupt minds to force two strangers together to reenact their own fantasies. They may be dead, but this, my beloved readers, has crushed my ideas about the sacred love between two people. It saddens me to see that we’ve come this far just to entertain ourselves. They say humanity has changed since the deaths of those in the Colesseum or the persecution of slaves or the tortures of war. In this time of peace, the truth is we still behave as animals. We’ve not change our ways but only sought new ways to entertain ourselves losing sight of the purpose of preserving a corpse for medical reasons. Yes the people are dead and so most don’t care, but it’s not the bodies that are of concern but the morals and ideas behind the displays which have lost their purpose. You cringe at the idea of our ancestor’s history where heads were shrunken and worn around the belts of savages or displayed outside the city walls on pikes. When preserved in the downtown museum of our own homelands is something much to the same effect, what’s the difference. Were these people willing to volunteer themselves? Yes, but not all. And did they know just how their bodies would be used after death? Probably not.
Most of the bodies are preserved only two days after death and places like China are making profits by selling their people’s bodies without the families’ consent because of outlawed religious purposes. These “criminals” are preserved and sent overseas and curiously enough it seems most corpses are always young in age. Taking advantage of the market and profit making they’ve sold their own. While those in Northern Europe and America don’t use prisoners (or at least not that we know of) there is the question of morals behind the poses themselves. Is this really for science or just entertainment?
As a volunteer organ donor it has made me question and rethink whether I should withdraw my name from the list because my trust in science is shaken. I enrolled myself to save a life of someone in need if I died, but if my body is to be cut to pieces and reformed into an art piece (or making me shudder even more) having my body put on display in a sexual position with a stranger then I might just take my name off the list. I want to donate my body to real science not to entertain public curiosities. I can’t quite clearly see how to stop this ever growing problem as we can’t stop every human in the world from making these plastinated bodies, but we can spread the awareness by showing the corrupt morals behind it. Don’t go to the museums or encourage others to do so unless you support the dark reality of what these truly mean. If you don’t support plastination then spread awareness wherever you go either through writing or your words. Trying to shut down these museums will be almost impossible without petitioning to the city you live in or reaching out to a higher authority to approve the act, but as individuals we can spread awareness and drive forward the possibility of change.
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