Dead Bodies Everywhere

[Animavore]

I finally got to see the Bodies exhibit in Dublin today and my opinion of it was meh.

I don't think it was worth €20, I think €12.50 would've been a more fair price, the exhibit isn't terribly big and you can see everything in half an hour and that's even having a good gander.
Although the bodies on display were pretty awesome, especially the respiratory system and the foetuses at varying stages of development, I was sad not to see details of the eyes and ear or the genitalia. I was also not happy with the fact I wasn't allowed to touch the bodies because I really wanted to interact, y'know stick my fingers into all the holes and have a good root around. I also would've liked to have seen some victims of trauma, like a gunshot wound to the face, a knife wound to the chest or someone run down by a lorry.
Not to say there wasn't some cool stuff like bodies in slices or half a head just lying there but, it wasn't spectacular. The Ambassador is to small a venue for it, the one on Casino Royale looked much bigger with a lot more displays.

[cowiz]

It sounds as if the Mutter Museum here in Philly would be right up your street.

http://www.collphyphil.org/mutter.asp

Won't go there myself, way too squeamish.

[The Curious Squid]

Animavore, There's an anatomy museum in the University of Glasgow that you'd probably find interesting as well. If you want I'll make a point of going to it sometime next week and take a few pictures to post here.

What is it you find interesting about corpses? Is it just the whole reflection on mortality/morbid curiosity or is there a more elaborate reason?

[Animavore]

Probably a less elaborate reason. I just like the gore of it, the evisceration. I like looking at how fragile the human body is and being reminded how fast people can just be wiped out. It reminds me that I myself am just a piece of meat and that my own life is not to be taken for granted.
If things had've been different in my life I would've quite liked to be a pathologist. It's a shame I had no intellectual influences in my life to get me into these things. It's only since I was 25-6 I took up a real interest in science and started ditching all the woo I believed in (mostly supernatural and paranormal stuff as well as UFOs but never, strangely, god).
Oh well. If I ever have kids they'll be taught what I know now and hopefully go a little further.

[Animavore]

It sounds as if the Mutter Museum here in Philly would be right up your street.

http://www.collphyphil.org/mutter.asp

Won't go there myself, way too squeamish.

That actually sounds more like what I would've expected the Bodies exhibit to be.

[The Curious Squid]

Do you want me to go and get some pics?

I've been there two times in the past and could probably do with going back again. I need ways of filling up my spare time.

[Animavore]

Do you want me to go and get some pics?

I've been there two times in the past and could probably do with going back again. I need ways of filling up my spare time.

Nah you don't have to go do that on my account. I wouldn't put anyone out of their way.

[The Curious Squid]

We'll see what happens, the Uni isn't far from my home and I do find most aspects of science interesting so it's not like I wouldn't be getting anything from it.

[Animavore]

Ok. Cool. I would appreciate it. I do find the whole anatomy thing interesting. Have your ever seen Life or Death on Channel 4 by the same bloke that created the Bodies exhibit were he does a live autopsy on T.V.?

[Animavore]

You never did get photos from that museum Pac-Man.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I could get really creepy here.

[Animavore]

Please do.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

How about a church burned to the ground, with 50-60 people locked inside?

[Animavore]

Oh. Crispy.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Oh. Crispy.

It was legitimate, of course. Done by freedom fighters, not terrorists.