I'm just sayin', some nasty things can go down when you're the son of an SS officer and you always wear a black Fedora. When I saw the museum of the mummies, the bodies had all been taken from temporary graves (couldn't pay the fee for a permanent grave, because they're dead) and put on display unless a family member wanted to claim the remains. So it was basically a bunch of corpses of foreigners who didn't have any family anyone knew how to contact. Anyway. My point is that not a single one of them donated their bodies. The limiting factor was that no one related to them ever spoke up.
Feel free to ignore the preceding paragraph because I'm tired and rambling. I'll just take looktothesky's word for it because she's so trustworthy.
The production company's own words say it loud and clear. The bodies are
not donated. They are unclaimed Chinese bodies, with Chinese paperwork and no regulations in the US. But Premier Productions trusts its partners in China, they are good friends. No one at any level of US government is looking at these exhibits. Does that make everyone feel better?
Read and decide for yourself.
Origin of exhibit’s bodies contested: Columbus Dispatch)
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http://www.columbusd...NA.html?sid=101The bodies were unidentified or unclaimed, he said.”You have to take somebody’s word for it,” Glover said when asked how he can be sure. He said the head of the lab at Dalian is a longtime, trusted friend. (and fellow millionaire?)
Columbus OH, Channel 10
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http://www.10tv.com/...1933689033.htmlGlover admitted that the bodies used in Bodies… The Exhibition were obtained without consent. The bodies, he said, are unclaimed and were acquired from a Chinese medical school. “There was no permission,” Glover said.
They’re remains to be seen: Controversial human cadaver show will stop in
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http://www.signonsan..._1n6bodies.htmlGlover and executives at Premier say their cadavers are unidentified and unclaimed persons …Obtaining informed consent is impossible, they say, but they do take all possible steps to ensure the bodies are legally and morally obtained.“Company executives traveled to China to find just the right partner,” Glover said. “Dr. Sui Hongjin (an anatomist at the Dalian Medical University plastination lab and former general manager of ‘Body Worlds’) is a very good friend of mine.”
Origins of Exhibited Cadavers Questioned – National Public Radio story
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http://www.npr.org/t...storyId=5637687Roy Glover, spokesman for BODIES... The Exhibition, says its cadavers -- all from China -- did not come from willing donors. "They're unclaimed," Glover says. Groups such as the Laogai Research Foundation, which documents human rights abuse in China, have charged that the category of unclaimed bodies in China includes executed political prisoners."He stated that none of the material came from criminal institutions or homes from the mentally insane. But just his word on that, no documents," Dr. Lynn Romrell, Chair of Florida State Anatomical Board.