Preserved Bodies Display Draws Criticism
Posted on: Friday, 16 January 2004, 06:00 CST
A German anatomist's exhibit of skinless and dissected bodies that has drawn crowds in Germany and other countries opened in Frankfurt on Friday amid criticism from church and government officials.
The Lutheran church decried "Body Worlds," which features some 20 corpses in various states of dismemberment and more than 150 other body parts, as amoral and insulting to the dead.
The church is holding a prayer vigil for the dead and a series of lectures surrounding the exhibit, which received similar criticism in seven other German cities it has visited. The display "is like trampling on the human rights" of the dead, Provost Helga Troesken told a local Lutheran paper.
State authorities warned parents not to allow children younger than 14 to view the exhibit, which they said could "shock and frighten" them.
Some 14 million people have seen the exhibit, which has also gone to Japan, Austria, Switzerland and London. It runs through April 18 in Frankfurt.
Dr. Gunther von Hagens, who launched the show in 1997, defended it as a display of the beauties inside the human body.
"It's not an illegal cemetery, it is a place of explanation," Hagens said.
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