The bodies are donated willingly by themselves (pre-death). If they weren't--if they were unclaimed off the street or something--it would bother me but since I assume these people knew they would be plastinated and displayed in their altogether for the public (for a fee), hey, whatever makes them happy.

BodyWorlds3 is closing soon here at the Houston Museum of Natural History. There was a BIG stink raised here by the fundamentalist faction about it being ghoulish but I didn't think it was ghoulish at all. It's not disgusting--they just look like plastic.

Mom was thrilled to see they had a polycystic kidney (she had hers removed a few years ago). I wouldn't take small children to see it but I think it's a great opportunity for older students to see anatomy, especially since so many people these days object to animal dissection. Those computer animation things just aren't the same.

And no, I wouldn't mind seeing my family members there if that's what they wanted. My mother has had a quadruple bypass, several dialysis accesses, a nephrectomy, and a kidney transplant--she would be a very, very, interesting plastination, and very educational.