(McNeil) The woman without a face

On our free weekend a few of us decided to swallow our pride and pay for the very pricey ticket to the Human Body Exhibit.  Needless to say it was well worth the walk and the price.  There is much controversy surrounding the exhibit because it uses real human bodies and body parts in the display and how they came about obtaining the bodies.  Also, another issue is how the bodies are put on display and how they are dissected. Individual body parts are separated and put on display in glass cases with descriptions of what exactly they are and what their function in the body is.  That is all fine and dandy but what didn't sit with me and what I imagine doesn't sit with others is how the actual bodies that are on display are just left out there posed.  They are ripped apart, skin is gone and everything is exposed.  No glass casing, no type of enclosure surrounds these bodies from themselves and the viewers.  They are dissected, parts of the bodies are pried open and the fact that you are staring at an actual human being, this person was once alive is just mind blowing.  What kind of people could find this ethically okay?  Who in their right mind would even come up with an idea like this?  What really didn't sit well with me was out of all the full bodies that were on display, only one was a woman.  Now most of the bodies were missing majority of their skin but they still had a face and eyes and you could someone (if you looked hard enough) see the features and imagine what that person once looked like, but the woman...the chopped off her face.  The only woman on display in the entire exhibit and they remove her face.  In my opinion that is just so wrong, this woman was once a person, she had a family and friends probably.  It goes for all the bodies used in the exhibit, I found it very hard to remove myself from the fact that these were once people and they had lives and whether or not those lives where great or meaningful they still had them.  Though the exhibit was extremely educational I think the line between what is science and what is just plain wrong was definitely crossed, whether it was at dissected human fetus or the woman with no face.