Seattle Council Bans Bodies

While I think the Seattle City Council often sticks their legislative noses into some silly areas, I am pleased to see that they've banned "Bodies"-type exhibits. I was disgusted when this so-called exhibit came through the area twice and was received by enthusiastic audiences. These are dead people, not wax figures.

"I'm proud of this City Council," said Patrick Burns, a Seattle resident and retired union carpenter who became concerned with the issue after "Bodies" came twice to Seattle.
He said crowds of people would line up as if they were at a movie theater, smiling and chatting as they waited. But they weren't going to see a film — they were going to see cadavers staged in poses, as if playing football or volleyball, for example.
"They had no sense that these bodies were precious human beings to some family," Burns said.

Exactly. And the council's legislation hit the necro-peep show in its ethically soft center: no permission, no show. The bodies in these exhibits are often acquired from Chinese prisons. Anyone out there have faith in the Chinese penal system having obtained these bodies with valid, uncoerced permission from rightly-convicted felons?

Me neither....