I don't understand why some people think this isn't about education. So you tell me that when you go to this exhibition, you learn nothing about the human body? You can't deny that you do. About the sexual positions --> This whole exhibition is about learning about the human body, and well Sex is just a part of it. (I do respect other peoples opinions though)
So I can't say anything else then to be excited to see this exhibition in Amsterdam soon. =)
It's repulsive. It isn't for science/medical training. When you pose these bodies in anything from sexual poses to mounting them on an animal, it becomes perverse. The fact it makes money from these exhibits makes it even worse.
No difference between this an the so called Nazi skin lamps.
@clearlogicify Maybe you are looking to it the wrong way :) It shows diseases. It shows smokers and non-smokers lungs. It makes us very aware what happends to our bodies if we can look into it.
The entree is not expensive, they use the money to make more useful exhibitions. Thats a good thing. Sex is not perverse, its a thing people do. This way we see exactly how it loos like from within. Nothing wrong with it.
Its not to compare with what the nazi's did, these people donated there own bodies.
@MartinaMovies But is isn't for education. It's for entertainment and to make money. If these were fake bodies, it wouldn't attract the audience or interest. How does a body stripped of skin, then posed in a sexual position help educate anyone? Displays of that nature are a perversion. A warping of norms and in poor taste.
@clearlogicify For a big part its education. Students were helping with the plastination proces. The exhibiotions are mostly visited by highschools, medical students and universities. But of course they want money for that. Without money the exhibition coulndt exist and the people who work there need to be payed as well.
Its only one or two bosies that are in a sexual position. And I dont see why not? There are bodies in a lot of positions. We can see how everything works from inside, also sex.
@clearlogicify But I understand, everybody thinks differently about it. And its kinda weird because those are real bodies. But yes, for me ( working in medical helathcare ) it is extremely interesting becuase there were real living humans. You can see the difference between a body full of cancer an a body that is healthy. The body of a drinker or smoker. I myself find that fascinating. But its good people think differently:)
@MartinaMovies You must realize this is little more than the old freak shows. Heads in jars, deformed performers and strange animals. It is exploitation and feeds a need in many people. The addition of bodies posed sexually crosses the line by a long way.
We are all different, and different things appeal to different people.
Such a subject undoubtedly polarises opinion.Personally I think Professor Van Hagen is a genius.All the people he plastinates have given their consent so it's not as if he's 'robbing graves'.Anything which helps us understand better the intricacies of our greatest creation,the human body,can only be for the good.Da Vinci gave the world his anatomical sketches in the 15th century and people stared in disbelief.We've come a long way since then.
Nigger youtube's inner and external beauty. Monkey is marvel of youtube. Thanks to the plastination technique. More exciting every human will see some years later youtube monkeys bodyworld. Happy and busy plastinations.
Part of me is creeped - out & thinks this is bizarre, part of me wants to see it in person before passing an irrevocable " final word " judgement on it to condemn or praise it.
Anatomy students studied preserved sections of cadavers like heads & torsos dehydrated & impregnated w / wax. The only difference is that this is open to the general public.
@knoxvilleguy2 I understand your quandry, but I'm in favour of ALL the public being comfortable with our truly physical bodies. Our anatomy, our corporeal bodies aren't mysterious. We all own one, shouldn't we all be aware and comfortable with what's under our skin? Our soul is a different entity, it goes on when the corporeal body dies. Let the body be a teaching instrument!
@TheBrendadale - & I understand where you're coming from. I, personally, have signed a form donating my physical remains to the " Body Farm " facility at the University of TN.
I think the reason why some people have problems w / this display is that the bodies are from the recently deceased. Whereas if they were ancient Egyptian, Incan or the mummies of Japanese Zen Buddhist masters they'd be looked at as having historical, cultural significance or even as " sacred ".
@TheBrendadale - & if I knew where the next display would be, I might try to see it. My uncle took my aunt to see it in Cincinati, OH - As a BIRTHDAY present over 3 years ago ! She was fine w / it, he needed a " barf - bag " !
One Buddhist meditation even involves sitting near a corpse as it starts to enter putrefaction - The reason being to come to terms with life's impermanence.
notice how they no longer refer to the corpse as a human being but a "specimen". Otherwise it probably would often prevent them from tampering with a body.
They really need to cover the private parts up. I would love to take my little brother to one, but Im not okay with him being only 7 and seeing all that stuff.
@caligal2010 You're okay with bringing him to dissected human bodies but not to see genitals lol?? "Private parts" are just as natural as the organs he'll be looking at.. and probably easier for him to understand since he can see his own private parts.. he cant see his own spleen.
notice how he uses the word "bodies" until 2:19, this is because after plastination the cadaver is no longer a "body" its now a specimen because everything has been replaced with plastic. all that means is that Gunter is allowed to do anything he wants with them, legally.
Those were people with an entire lifetime worth of thoughts and... gone, just like that. Now they're being dipped into liquids and cut open. It's for a good cause, but I really hope that everyone realizes that these are human beings.
@MrTuffgongrecords - With all due respect, I wouldn't WANT a plastinated body or body part to display in my apartment. For 1 thing, I believe that w / be a violation of health codes. & also, I believe it's illegal to own human remains except the ashes / cremains of a deceased relative.
Quite useful for educational purposes. One might create a huge museum for various diseases, where the damaged body parts (or whole bodies) can be shown to the public. Really fascinating and at the same time a little bit sick - slices of human body... :X :D
@rbaleksandar The "bit sick" part wears off soon enough. I'm a medical student and can testify that it took very little time for the entire class to get over their initial queasiness. A head in a jar of formalin with the brain exposed and partly dissected? How about a whole bucket of brains? Or a bucket of larynxes? Dissecting eyeballs? Dissecting genitalia? Lifting a sheet and finding there are five severed heads underneath? Seen all that, done all that... MEH!
@TravisMorien I've seen my first brain surgery, when I was 6(got connections for this - both parents work in a hospital and my father is a neurosurgeon + plenty of other doctors to satisfy my curiosity :D) and didn't throw up or even get dizzy, so there is no point in listing all that stuff here. Probably I've seen more brains, blood and guts than you in your whole student-life.
@TravisMorien My point is - it's a totally different thing to display slices/parts of a human body in a medical university or a hospital as to making figures and such with them and showing them as art. Yes, the human body is a complex thing and it's also beautiful (inside and outside). Quite fascinating. But there should be some rules how to treat a human body. ;)
Dr. Von Hagens is a very controversial person because he uses real donated body, but still his works will surely help medical students and also to other people who wants to know what's inside our body and how does our body work. :)
gonther von hagens is an mad person
YoO161 1 day ago
ew
AngelGagaMonster 2 days ago
been to Dublin to see this show . OUTSTANDING is all I can say very very interesting an an eye opener Thankyou
bunkesbarman 1 week ago
It's something we can all associate ourselves with. We all have bones and organs!
ErichoTTA 1 week ago
I don't understand why some people think this isn't about education. So you tell me that when you go to this exhibition, you learn nothing about the human body? You can't deny that you do. About the sexual positions --> This whole exhibition is about learning about the human body, and well Sex is just a part of it. (I do respect other peoples opinions though)
So I can't say anything else then to be excited to see this exhibition in Amsterdam soon. =)
LittlDemonInside 2 weeks ago
Going to see the exhibition in Amsterdam next month!
MartinaMovies 3 weeks ago
It's repulsive. It isn't for science/medical training. When you pose these bodies in anything from sexual poses to mounting them on an animal, it becomes perverse. The fact it makes money from these exhibits makes it even worse.
No difference between this an the so called Nazi skin lamps.
clearlogicify 4 weeks ago
@clearlogicify Maybe you are looking to it the wrong way :) It shows diseases. It shows smokers and non-smokers lungs. It makes us very aware what happends to our bodies if we can look into it.
The entree is not expensive, they use the money to make more useful exhibitions. Thats a good thing. Sex is not perverse, its a thing people do. This way we see exactly how it loos like from within. Nothing wrong with it.
Its not to compare with what the nazi's did, these people donated there own bodies.
MartinaMovies 3 weeks ago
@MartinaMovies But is isn't for education. It's for entertainment and to make money. If these were fake bodies, it wouldn't attract the audience or interest. How does a body stripped of skin, then posed in a sexual position help educate anyone? Displays of that nature are a perversion. A warping of norms and in poor taste.
clearlogicify 3 weeks ago
@clearlogicify For a big part its education. Students were helping with the plastination proces. The exhibiotions are mostly visited by highschools, medical students and universities. But of course they want money for that. Without money the exhibition coulndt exist and the people who work there need to be payed as well.
Its only one or two bosies that are in a sexual position. And I dont see why not? There are bodies in a lot of positions. We can see how everything works from inside, also sex.
MartinaMovies 3 weeks ago
@clearlogicify But I understand, everybody thinks differently about it. And its kinda weird because those are real bodies. But yes, for me ( working in medical helathcare ) it is extremely interesting becuase there were real living humans. You can see the difference between a body full of cancer an a body that is healthy. The body of a drinker or smoker. I myself find that fascinating. But its good people think differently:)
MartinaMovies 3 weeks ago
@MartinaMovies I have no problem with death, injury and have seen countless chest cracks during trauma.
Seeing a variety of illnesses and injuries is a completely different thing to posing dead bodies in sexual poses.
If you get some kind of education out of it, good for you. What do you get out of seeing the bodies in sexual poses?
clearlogicify 3 weeks ago
@MartinaMovies You must realize this is little more than the old freak shows. Heads in jars, deformed performers and strange animals. It is exploitation and feeds a need in many people. The addition of bodies posed sexually crosses the line by a long way.
We are all different, and different things appeal to different people.
clearlogicify 3 weeks ago
Going to see the exhibit in Dublin on the 18th of Feb and cannot wait!!!
greenybaby1 1 month ago
Saw this exhibit at OMSI in Oregon. It was the most amazing thing I've ever seen.
sparkylulu61 1 month ago
hi peoplr
100Monkeyface 1 month ago
omgomgomgomgomgomgomgogmgogmgo
100Monkeyface 1 month ago
Es asombroso.
luismrqz 1 month ago
have seen the bodys in real life. tomorrow seeing them in amsterdam (25-1-2012)
gozeltju 1 month ago
The way they pose the bodies is excessive and disgusting.
AdNeeb 1 month ago
Such a subject undoubtedly polarises opinion.Personally I think Professor Van Hagen is a genius.All the people he plastinates have given their consent so it's not as if he's 'robbing graves'.Anything which helps us understand better the intricacies of our greatest creation,the human body,can only be for the good.Da Vinci gave the world his anatomical sketches in the 15th century and people stared in disbelief.We've come a long way since then.
popazz1 2 months ago
Cryonics works better!
DK0526 2 months ago
fascinatingly gross and quite informative, wish i had the monies to go and see it
ZoruaZorroark 2 months ago
Nigger youtube's inner and external beauty. Monkey is marvel of youtube. Thanks to the plastination technique. More exciting every human will see some years later youtube monkeys bodyworld. Happy and busy plastinations.
Sweetaaaaaa 2 months ago
Part of me is creeped - out & thinks this is bizarre, part of me wants to see it in person before passing an irrevocable " final word " judgement on it to condemn or praise it.
Anatomy students studied preserved sections of cadavers like heads & torsos dehydrated & impregnated w / wax. The only difference is that this is open to the general public.
knoxvilleguy2 3 months ago
@knoxvilleguy2 I understand your quandry, but I'm in favour of ALL the public being comfortable with our truly physical bodies. Our anatomy, our corporeal bodies aren't mysterious. We all own one, shouldn't we all be aware and comfortable with what's under our skin? Our soul is a different entity, it goes on when the corporeal body dies. Let the body be a teaching instrument!
TheBrendadale 3 months ago
@TheBrendadale - & I understand where you're coming from. I, personally, have signed a form donating my physical remains to the " Body Farm " facility at the University of TN.
I think the reason why some people have problems w / this display is that the bodies are from the recently deceased. Whereas if they were ancient Egyptian, Incan or the mummies of Japanese Zen Buddhist masters they'd be looked at as having historical, cultural significance or even as " sacred ".
knoxvilleguy2 3 months ago
@TheBrendadale - & if I knew where the next display would be, I might try to see it. My uncle took my aunt to see it in Cincinati, OH - As a BIRTHDAY present over 3 years ago ! She was fine w / it, he needed a " barf - bag " !
One Buddhist meditation even involves sitting near a corpse as it starts to enter putrefaction - The reason being to come to terms with life's impermanence.
knoxvilleguy2 3 months ago
@knoxvilleguy2 It's currently at Oregon Museum of Science and Industry in Portland, OR.
jdtram 3 months ago
@jdtram - A few thousand miles out of my way, unfortunately. I'm in the Middle TN area.
I'd rather see it than Fundamentalist propaganda like the Creationism Museum ( Whatever ) in KY.
knoxvilleguy2 3 months ago
@jdtram - Kinda far from home for me, since I'm in middle TN & on a budget.
knoxvilleguy2 3 months ago
music name????
badmiakills 3 months ago
This is kinda sick...like REALLY sick.
Schmiki24 3 months ago
Body works is where science and art meet.
Animalkisser 3 months ago 3
Im going to donate my body when die for this, i think is great, rather beplastic than been eating by magots
Montrea6969 4 months ago 3
notice how they no longer refer to the corpse as a human being but a "specimen". Otherwise it probably would often prevent them from tampering with a body.
Shizzlmadizzl 4 months ago
how the music called?
combatfear4 4 months ago
crasy how those were people once
96airsofter 4 months ago
They really need to cover the private parts up. I would love to take my little brother to one, but Im not okay with him being only 7 and seeing all that stuff.
caligal2010 4 months ago
@caligal2010 You're okay with bringing him to dissected human bodies but not to see genitals lol?? "Private parts" are just as natural as the organs he'll be looking at.. and probably easier for him to understand since he can see his own private parts.. he cant see his own spleen.
Brandi5769 4 months ago
@Brandi5769 I still wish they'd cover all that up, or make one thats for kids under 12.
caligal2010 4 months ago
fukin sadic mad man scientist
piroclaster 4 months ago
It would take roughly 3 gallons of plasti dip to preserve my cock.
pearlmax 4 months ago 3
lemme put it this way...THOSE ARE REAL PEOPLE!!! THEY COOK THEIR MEAT IN PLASTIC...but i love it o.O
kiwiodoom 5 months ago
notice how he uses the word "bodies" until 2:19, this is because after plastination the cadaver is no longer a "body" its now a specimen because everything has been replaced with plastic. all that means is that Gunter is allowed to do anything he wants with them, legally.
MrTuffgongrecords 5 months ago
I am really not trying to be a naysayer here but,
Those were people with an entire lifetime worth of thoughts and... gone, just like that. Now they're being dipped into liquids and cut open. It's for a good cause, but I really hope that everyone realizes that these are human beings.
SolidSnake3131 5 months ago
you can buy one of these plastinated bodies at the bodies of the world website
MrTuffgongrecords 6 months ago
@MrTuffgongrecords LOL hell no, no thanks.
DaggersDen 5 months ago
@DaggersDen
why not? i have one of these bodies in my room right next to my bed where i sleep at night. XD
MrTuffgongrecords 5 months ago
@MrTuffgongrecords wonderful, have fun with your corpse.
DaggersDen 5 months ago
@DaggersDen
its a specimen not a corpse.
MrTuffgongrecords 5 months ago
@MrTuffgongrecords Lol??????? Its a dead body, its a corpse, and you have a dead person's body in your house......have fun with that.
DaggersDen 5 months ago
@DaggersDen - Jeffrey Dahmer's best buddy. ;~)
knoxvilleguy2 3 months ago
@MrTuffgongrecords - With all due respect, I wouldn't WANT a plastinated body or body part to display in my apartment. For 1 thing, I believe that w / be a violation of health codes. & also, I believe it's illegal to own human remains except the ashes / cremains of a deceased relative.
knoxvilleguy2 3 months ago 2
this exhibition is amazing i recommend it to everyone and all ages
gabriel7291 6 months ago
Der immer mit seinem Hut. :S
Gonnakillyou 6 months ago
For some reason this dosent sit well with me...
MacavitysSweetheart 6 months ago
Quite useful for educational purposes. One might create a huge museum for various diseases, where the damaged body parts (or whole bodies) can be shown to the public. Really fascinating and at the same time a little bit sick - slices of human body... :X :D
rbaleksandar 7 months ago 19
@rbaleksandar The "bit sick" part wears off soon enough. I'm a medical student and can testify that it took very little time for the entire class to get over their initial queasiness. A head in a jar of formalin with the brain exposed and partly dissected? How about a whole bucket of brains? Or a bucket of larynxes? Dissecting eyeballs? Dissecting genitalia? Lifting a sheet and finding there are five severed heads underneath? Seen all that, done all that... MEH!
TravisMorien 4 months ago
@TravisMorien I've seen my first brain surgery, when I was 6(got connections for this - both parents work in a hospital and my father is a neurosurgeon + plenty of other doctors to satisfy my curiosity :D) and didn't throw up or even get dizzy, so there is no point in listing all that stuff here. Probably I've seen more brains, blood and guts than you in your whole student-life.
rbaleksandar 4 months ago
@TravisMorien My point is - it's a totally different thing to display slices/parts of a human body in a medical university or a hospital as to making figures and such with them and showing them as art. Yes, the human body is a complex thing and it's also beautiful (inside and outside). Quite fascinating. But there should be some rules how to treat a human body. ;)
rbaleksandar 4 months ago 2
Genial, me encantaria que esta expo estuviese en Mexico-
Annalopez1707 7 months ago
where can I download a full movie re process of plastination.....
accopo 7 months ago
this is gross and fastinating the same time
kleinesmaenchen 8 months ago 36
I'm doing it for humanity
I would like to be touring around the world in a expeditions,
To expose many thing, from my bodied
I'm just good for that; I’m not good to give any organs
I might as well do something useful
Any one still learning some thing
33377766699 9 months ago
Anyone here for moodle?
TheRadman23016 9 months ago
@TheRadman23016 yess
IAmMsTaco 9 months ago
@IAmMsTaco WHATS YOUR NAME?
TheRadman23016 9 months ago
@TheRadman23016 Katelyn lol
IAmMsTaco 9 months ago
@IAmMsTaco hey its Nikko lol
TheRadman23016 9 months ago
@TheRadman23016 lol oh hey haha
IAmMsTaco 9 months ago
@IAmMsTaco Hey lol
TheRadman23016 9 months ago
3:07 is so scary how it moves.
NaYh 9 months ago
Saw at Houston Museum of Natural Science. Abosuteley Beautiful Specimens! Gods creation amazes me!
rabbitman97 10 months ago
Amazing stuff. Thanks to plastination I got to hold a heart. But you can see why religions disagree with science.
Kainustan 10 months ago
i went to this at the O2 it was awesome, the hose was there along with a giraffe and 1-8 week old feotuses
jianow 10 months ago
Awesome! Art!!! and Educational Anatomy
zarabow 1 year ago
Dr. Von Hagens is a very controversial person because he uses real donated body, but still his works will surely help medical students and also to other people who wants to know what's inside our body and how does our body work. :)
cinemazuka 1 year ago 2
the last picture was very interesting, the inside of the face. Never seen that before, kinda creepy too
msbforever 1 year ago 2