Tuesday, July 20, 2004

101 things to do with a dead body

Now I'm most certainly not uptight, in fact I consider myself to be pretty liberal and laid back as some of you may know ;-)
But last nights programme on the dead body was quite hard to swallow. I kept thinking that someone somewhere had just lost a person they loved and although the dead body is indeed a shell. Still someone loved that body.
To make fun of the dead in such a crass way wasn't nice. It was all too jokey. I visited the human body exhibit in Brick Lane London and was fascinated and mesmorised by the displays. But this programme wasn't science or interest. It was disrespectful.
The picture below shows a Doctor using skin from a cadaver to make a guys penis longer.
We also saw bodies left to decompose .... Now this itself was ok. This helps Crime pathologists to work out how long bodies have been dead to help in crime scenes. But we saw the bodies decomposing, the maggots and mould. Did we need to see that? Aren't we all aware of our own mortality?
Tsk silly channel four

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