22:30:22 2008-09-14
Hello,
First of all, I`d like to greet
all of you, who wished to visit my little shack of philosophical
discussion. Well, all I may hope for, is that you will enjoy your stay
indeed, altho I can`t guarantee that !
Not so long time ago, I`ve stumbled across
information about some kind of medical exhibition, name was body worlds
or something similiar. Well, basically it`s all about a german guy,
Gunter von Hagens. Guy`s a well known doctor, physician and well, body
conveserver. We can say his specialization is creation of mummies. All
kind of mummies. Yep, mummies from dead people. But no, he doesn`t do
that for some sinister acts or wealth. He just preserves human flesh,
bones, tissues to show them to ublic. Scandalous ? Of course ! Scary ?
yes, we know. Sounds like a horror plot ? Hard to disagree. But we also
have to look, that everything that moved medicine/anathomy/physics was
controversial. In matter of fact, none of us is the God, noone of us
has the right to judge one`s actions. Sooner or later von Hagen will
reach his supreme court, I`ll just wonder whether he gets sentenced or
not. Anyway, let`s do a little close up on the plastination process,
which is a procedure of embalming, introduced by von Hagens.
Plastination was developed by already mentioned doctor,
and took him over 30 years to complete the research. it`s all about
polymers actually, same material which is used for creation of
bulletproof vests. As for your personal curiousity, I`ve decided to ask
them for materials, because I`ve told them, that I want to become a
donor. Of course, within 2 working days I`ve got a big mail package,
containing everything you need to know, survivor`s guide of
how-to-deliver-body-untouched-to-embalming-facility, 2 x Donors
consent, some kind of agreement, Donor`s card and a book about
plastination. First thing they do, is preventing your body from
dissolving, by injecting formalin into yoru bloodvein. Next thingie,
they pump acetone in you, jsut to finish the process by adding
polymers. After that, they set you up to certain pose, and dependign on
embalming polymer used, simply and practically, gas/hear/pressure you
up, so you become perfectly mummified candidate for upcoming exposition.
Well, that`s thrilling, isn`t it ? Ask yourself if
you want to become von Hagen`s exposition, and feel free to answer in
comment.
Over and out !
