Bodies

Yesterday I took my youngest daughter, Sarah, to see the VITAL HUMAN BODY. This was a display at the Tech Museum of bodies of real people (dead of course) that they showed the muscles, bones, and organs. I had heard the controversies of this exhibit for a long time how the bodies were gotten from China and people were not sure how the government may obtained the bodies. I had never really wanted to see this exhibit, but Sarah needed to go for extra credit. After getting to the tech museum we walked around for 20 minutes and found other people walking also trying to find the entrance for that one exhibit. We had to walk out of the building go around the corner and enter another door. We were looking for so long there ended up being a group of 10 to 15 people together. After we got into the exhibit it was interesting to see the bodies and how they had the skin off and showed the muscle and the organs and the tendons and all the other parts of the body under the skin. Sarah had a paper to fill out so I just walked around. Truthfully, I got a little sick to my stomach thinking that these were real people and they were filleted to demonstrate how the body worked. Sarah took about an hour to fill out the pages,sometimes asking for my help. I was very glad to leave that exhibit area. It made me think of the first time I had seen a dead body. When I was a freshman in college I was going to my geology class, which as in the science building. As I was walking down the hall I saw a huge wooden box sitting next to a door. I peeked in the box and there was a cadaver. It was the first time I had seen a dead body. It was a greenish gray color, but I didn't see the eye color. I was traumatized. I went to class, and then went back to my dorm room. I couldn't get the sight out of my head. I wanted to forget, but couldn't. I thought of that for years, how could they just leave a cadaver in the hall way, you never know when a freshman might walk by and look in the box!!!