Corpses, Made in China, On Display in U.S.
flockwoodIt’s a macabre money maker: human corpses, sliced and diced and skinned and on display in Hot Springs, Arkansas and dozens of other cities and towns across America.
The dead bodies are imported from China. Critics say it’s a latter-day Freak Show. Supporters say it’s all about education. Opponents question whether the humans gave informed consent for their bodies to be ghoulishly displayed in the United States. Promoters say everything’s on the up and up. What do you think?
California lawmakers have their doubts about the displays. They recently passed a law that would outlaw such exhibits unless promoters can prove that the deceased gave their permission for their bodies to be displayed.
September 11th, 2008 at 10:56 am
It’s interesting that all this comes out AFTER the Olympics, not before or during. We have sold out to China, because we need their cheap labor to make our Happy Meal toys and their investment money to prop up our mismanaged financial markets. Therefore, we’re willing to excuse them for invading Tibet, killing prisoners for their organs, building shoddy buildings that fall down during earthquakes, persecuting Christians and other religious groups, and in general operating a repressive regime that allows no freedom of speech or the press, and violates every tenet of basic dignity.
And after all that, to what do we object? Their sending us corpses of people too dead to care. I think we should worry more about what China does to the living than to the dead. Though what they’re doing does show that this regime will do anything for a laugh.