Okay, here is a thing. You know Body Worlds, right? It's that travelling exhibition of preserved, real-ass human bodies that you don't know whether to think is really cool or really creepy. I saw both Body Worlds I and II, so I'm basically an expert. The first time I saw it was with my grandma, the second time with my high school science class. First time I thought it was cool, second time I was more weirded out because I imagined the creator of Body Worlds (because they kept referring to it as one single guy who made the whole installation) in his basement laboratory Frankensteining the shit out of some random cadavres.
Anyway, on my date *takes minute to relish in the fact that she went on a date* we were talking about Body Worlds at one point- and I didn't go all Nancy Drew on him because it was a date, but I have a lot of inquisitions about Body Worlds. My date brought up the fact that once you get to the end of the exhibit they ask if you want to sign a waiver to have your body donated to science of Body Worlds (I'm not sure whether they're specific about wanting to acquire your body for themselves, maybe they only do that for hot people), anyway, this leads me to my question. Presuming you sign the waiver (which may or may not line up with what you feel in your heart- which Body Worlds points out, is just a mass of tissue and organ-stuff-): what exhibits in Body Worlds would you be okay with being put in?
I should have explained this at the start. For all the n00bs out there; all the bodies are placed in different positions, like soccer-playing, javelin-tossing, horse, and sex. Some of the bodies are split in a variety of ways to show you more organ-stuff- at last, the spleen gets it's moment in the sun! Sometimes there are just brain slices in glass boxes, which is not as show-stopping.
What I'm getting at here, is that there are the "cool kids" and the brain slices. If I am going to hand my hot bod over to Body Worlds for the rest of eternity and the existence of Body Worlds, I at least want to be doing something cool. I don't know if I want to be having sex with a corpse I don't know though. What if he was a murderer in life? What if my dad wouldn't approve of him? If my body "lives" on, I at least want my loose morals to do the same.
Naturally, this makes me think there should be some sort of questionnaire accompanying the waiver, so that the Body Worlds elves can get a sense of your personality and mould your carcass accordingly. In this case, for myself, I would propose and exhibit where my body is swinging from a lampost, saving a bus full of pregnant women bodies (they have that in Body Worlds) from a fire. It would be best if there was some sort of eternal flame in the exhibit, alternatively a sculpture of fire-coloured pipe cleaners.
At the risk of being asked for a picture of my butt, I would like to ask for opinions. If you've got an opinion, and you're not a computer directed here by a weird keyword search, please holla a comment.
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