You Can’t Take It With You
[Bodies Exhibit, South St Seaport]
Woman in wheelchair: These models are fantastic!
Man pushing her: These aren’t models.
Woman in wheelchair: Oh, no!
I find the plastination of cadavers to be both educational and beautiful. What incredible detail and function we have in every single part of us …and the process lends itself to a good cause too – it’s not just for art or morbidity’s sake:
Donors Hope Plastinated Bodies Educate
By THOMAS PEIPERT (Source: Associated Press/AP Online)
DALLAS – Stace Owens has no intention of leaving this world when he dies. He plans to stick around for decades or longer, preserved in plastic and displayed in a museum or medical school…
Read the complete article here.
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Eddie on 25 May 2007 at 9:52 am #
When clicking on that plastination link, I was unprepared for that. Seemed like part of our reality was peeled away. I wonder if that’s how we would look like to beings from another dimension?
James on 26 May 2007 at 2:43 pm #
You know, that’s get me thinking that maybe dimensions play into reincarnation? Bare with me. Who knows, maybe once we die, we enter another dimension, dimensions that branch out, our actions in the previous one deciding which dimensional path we take in the next. Let’s just forget about Christianity, it doesn’t have the patent on the afterlife, or continuation of the soul. Why chain ourselves to such mundane beliefs. Christianity is just another religion, like all the others, a guideline in this existence, at best. A form of chains on what some consider a prison planet. Hey, no doubt in my mind there is a God, or greater being that we’re all connected to. I don’t need any form of religion to be close to “it.” And so what if there’s no such thing as reincarnation, and one isn’t religious, but is very spiritual, I would think that person would “move” on to the next level, than, let’s say, the Pope who pimps fear onto those who do not follow their religion: what, now there’s no Purgatory?
Yes, dimensions. Now you got me thinking. Dimensional reincarnationist. That’d be cool. Knowingly reincarnated into whatever you want, in whatever dimension.