Comments on: Hide your shame, mummy! http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/398 History fetish? What history fetish? Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:15:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: livius drusus http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/398#comment-16101 livius drusus Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:17:49 +0000 http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/398#comment-16101 Ah, Body Worlds. Lots of ethical questions wrapped up in that show. I'd say ensuring the raw materials for it don't come from Chinese prisons is a more pressing issue than the death with dignity thing. Ah, Body Worlds. Lots of ethical questions wrapped up in that show. I’d say ensuring the raw materials for it don’t come from Chinese prisons is a more pressing issue than the death with dignity thing.

]]> By: Dina http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/398#comment-16079 Dina Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:34:26 +0000 http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/398#comment-16079 To answer your comment about the guide and tips. Yes, at the end of two-week tours with happy groups, he'd be on the Via Dollar-osa. Today on Zenit I read about http://www.zenit.org/article-22981?l=english Displaying Death Human Dignity in Question at Body World Exhibits and the "plastination" of dead bodies. :ohnoes: To answer your comment about the guide and tips. Yes, at the end of two-week tours with happy groups, he’d be on the Via Dollar-osa.

Today on Zenit I read about http://www.zenit.org/article-22981?l=english
Displaying Death
Human Dignity in Question at Body World Exhibits

and the “plastination” of dead bodies. :ohnoes:

]]> By: livius drusus http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/398#comment-15713 livius drusus Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:49:52 +0000 http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/398#comment-15713 :lol: Excellent point. And think of all the cross-marketing sponsorship opportunities! "Just because you've been dead 5000 years doesn't mean you couldn't use some support. Introducing the Victoria's Secret Mummy Linen collection." :lol: Excellent point. And think of all the cross-marketing sponsorship opportunities! “Just because you’ve been dead 5000 years doesn’t mean you couldn’t use some support. Introducing the Victoria’s Secret Mummy Linen collection.”

]]> By: livius drusus http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/398#comment-15712 livius drusus Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:48:10 +0000 http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/398#comment-15712 :lol: Now that's a quality tour experience. I bet he got monster tips. :lol: Now that’s a quality tour experience. I bet he got monster tips.

]]> By: Dina http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/398#comment-15621 Dina Wed, 28 May 2008 12:30:13 +0000 http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/398#comment-15621 You remind me of a certain guide here in Israel who would, when the spirit moved him, secretly send his bus driver ahead into the burial cave. His tourists would then get scared half to death when they came through and saw an arm suddenly rise out of an open sarcophagus. :skull: You remind me of a certain guide here in Israel who would, when the spirit moved him, secretly send his bus driver ahead into the burial cave. His tourists would then get scared half to death when they came through and saw an arm suddenly rise out of an open sarcophagus. :skull:

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