Mea Culpa = My fault, my blame, or my responsibility
If I do not speak out about this,
I am responsible for it to some extent even though
I would not do this to anyone.
I do not regard myself as being without vice
or above those who commit disrespectful acts.
I am saying that I don't condone those acts
whether committed by myself or others.
I am saying I will not support them.
Plasticizing human beings and
displaying them publicly is educational.
There is no denying that point.
The value of that education is
a point to be debated however.
Is the value of the information obtained
worth the price we must pay
for degrading human social structure and values?
Which humans today
want to be plasticized
and placed on display
their hidden insides,
their skin cut away
for curious eyes
incompassionate gaze
whose income supplies
the need for displays
presented for eyes
of those who will pay
to view the insides
the skin cut away
of others who died
the victims, the prey
of those who will sell
your soul away?
Where's our sense of decency?
Where the human soul
that fought for right to privacy
not too long ago?
Where the rights of people?
Does anyone know?
Where did our freedom
and morality go?
Each day new atrocities are publicly made known.
Each day we find someone making their living
at someone else's expense.
What happened to respecting dead people
and giving them a decent burial?
Who are the plasticized humans presented for display
at these abominable exhibits now touring the world?
Who is safe from being plasticized and publicly displayed
if we allow this despicable practice to exist among us?
These people were once someone's sons, daughters,
brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers.
Where are their families?
Who are the people making money from
displaying these dead people?
When is the price of an education too high to pay?
Even with prior consent, would the owners of these
bodies have wanted this treatment?
Would they have treated others this way?
Maybe these people were homeless while living.
Maybe this was the only way for them
to be allowed the right to occupy space in our world.
Even though those who patronize these exhibits
aren't eating these bodies, they are
consuming them in another way.
They are using them to feed their greed
for information, their boundless ambition
to view the unseen.
Is there no end to cannibalism in this world?
Is this responsible use by those who have
legal power over these deceased people?
WHO OWNS OUR DEAD?
How many of you who patronize the exhibits
of plasticized humans would want your
parents or grandparents or children or
grandchildren or brothers or sisters
or cousins treated this way?
Or your neighbors?
You are making millionaires of people
who will treat you no better.
I will not come to see you if you suffer a similar fate
to those whose bodies are now displayed.
I will respect your right to privacy.
If I do not speak out against this utterly foul practice,
protest in some way, I am allowing it to exist among us.
Where are the thoughts and feelings of our leaders?
Have they become so immune to the needs of people
that they will ignore the inevitable results of treating
human bodies in this manner?
Should any human being ever be displayed this way?
People of the world, of the nations, of my community
and of my church I address and beseech you to stand
against this accursed practice.
Nothing good can come from it.
If God were to be present among us,
would we treat Him that way?
Leges sine moribus vanae = Laws without morals are useless.
Mores sine legibus vagi, = Morals without laws are unstable.
http://www.upenn.edu/almanac/v50/n34/bacc_jp.html
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4291334&page=1
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