Life According to Rachel

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Friday, July 2, 2010

Gettin on my Soap Box!

Lately a lot of my friends have been going to see the "Bodies" exibit that travels around the country. This exibit I must say disgusts me. Not because I have any problem with dead bodies. I work in a hospital next to the morgue they are part of my life everyday. However, I do take issue with bodies being used in this way. I do respect that the people doing the exibit are trying to give people an understanding of the human body. This can be done in many ways other than gawking at dead people. Like take an A&P class. What really makes me against it is that when the bodies that are in the exibit were still living people and they made the decision to dontate their body to science did they really think that it would be used that way? This brings me to another point money is being made off of this exibit are the families of the deceased entitled to any of that money? I guess when you agree to give your body to science then you waive all of those rights. This being said I am an organ doner and am seriously considering donating my body to science, but not before I make sure that in now way will I be gawked at by thousands of people coming to see an exibit.