Hmm, I'm pretty sure this is supposed to go on the inside.
This past Saturday I went with my wife and mother-in-law to see the Body Worlds 3 exhibit in Salt Lake City. For those of you who don’t know what this is, let me explain: They take dead people… remove their skin… and pose them in ‘artistic’ poses so that people can come look at them. Not only do they use full bodies but they also have different organs on display and a very special room that has different fetuses at different stages. That was creepy. No jokes to go with that.
Now to the funny stuff. The exhibit is a great place to look at dead people if you don’t want to go to prison for it. It’s also a great place to make jokes and watch people give you weird looks. I couldn’t help myself when I saw an elderly person viewing the exhibit. I walked up to him and said, “So, I guess we’ll see you in this next year, right?” Yeah… he didn’t find that as funny as I did.
The process these bodies go through is called plastination. Basically that’s a scientific way of saying ‘shellac’. I swear Modge Podge must have made a fortune with this. The only reason I know that it’s called plastination is because they explain the process, and then try to recruit you to donate your body for plastination. I thought being a Mormon missionary was hard. Imagine trying to talk people into shellacking their dead bodies into weird positions and having people come look at them. That’s gotta be tough.
