The main reason given, it seems for the Public dissection of a Human body was for education, according to Von Hagens. That may have been his intention but I don't feel that the majority of those who paid to see this event or watched it on TV were really educated. I consider them to be more along the lines of those ghouls who slow down at road accidents just to try and get a good look, and all too often later using the experience for the entertainment of their social circle, "oh it was so terrible I just coudn't drag my eyes away". Just what did they come away with that they felt was educational?

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