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i don't think i would object to the category per se -- i could be persuaded to donate my body to such an exhibit especially if they told me they gave me a conse

i don't think i would object to the category per se -- i could be persuaded to donate my body to such an exhibit especially if they told me they gave me a consent form that was like "here are the possibilities, check the ones that tickle you".

g-b-r 1y ago
Why donate? They're making money out of that, why wouldn't you demand a payment? It would make sense to both get payed immediately and have a percentage of the future revenues sent to your family. Although this opens another can of worms, and seems in general a repulsive business to me.
- dotancohen 1y ago
  If the exhibit paid for bodies, instead of relying on donations, then people would complain that they exploit the poor. Which is not an invalid way of looking at it.
  - g-b-r 1y ago
    Well, they would say it if they wouldn't pay them enough. There are bigger problems than that, though, with bigger incentives to kill someone (in addition to those that the people involved with the exhibition have). So, if they really think that exhibition has educational value (and enough of that to justify it), they should operate as a non-profit, with no revenue out of it, and with at most modest compensations to everyone involved.
  - toast0 1y ago
    People say that even without a payment to the donor's estate, because donating offsets the cost of disposal that would otherwise accrue to the estate. Personally, I would consider donating my body to an exhibit in consideration of being exhibited; although I'm not much of an exhibitionist, so I'd still have to think about it. Similarly, I think I'd like to be respectfully dumped in a body farm, so forensic scientists can get more data about bodies that are less respectfully dumped in various places; that's an experience my body wouldn't be able to have except through donation or murder, and I'd rather not be murdered.
- shepherdjerred 1y ago
  Why not donate? Is it not possible to be generous?
  - g-b-r 1y ago
    Generous to a for-profit company?
- throwawaymaths 1y ago
  sure, id take money too.

g-b-r 1y ago

Why donate? They're making money out of that, why wouldn't you demand a payment? It would make sense to both get payed immediately and have a percentage of the future revenues sent to your family. Although this opens another can of worms, and seems in general a repulsive business to me.

dotancohen 1y ago
If the exhibit paid for bodies, instead of relying on donations, then people would complain that they exploit the poor. Which is not an invalid way of looking at it.
- g-b-r 1y ago
  Well, they would say it if they wouldn't pay them enough. There are bigger problems than that, though, with bigger incentives to kill someone (in addition to those that the people involved with the exhibition have). So, if they really think that exhibition has educational value (and enough of that to justify it), they should operate as a non-profit, with no revenue out of it, and with at most modest compensations to everyone involved.
- toast0 1y ago
  People say that even without a payment to the donor's estate, because donating offsets the cost of disposal that would otherwise accrue to the estate. Personally, I would consider donating my body to an exhibit in consideration of being exhibited; although I'm not much of an exhibitionist, so I'd still have to think about it. Similarly, I think I'd like to be respectfully dumped in a body farm, so forensic scientists can get more data about bodies that are less respectfully dumped in various places; that's an experience my body wouldn't be able to have except through donation or murder, and I'd rather not be murdered.
shepherdjerred 1y ago
Why not donate? Is it not possible to be generous?
- g-b-r 1y ago
  Generous to a for-profit company?
throwawaymaths 1y ago
sure, id take money too.