Body Worlds Impulse Exhibition Analysis

The process begins where the body is taken into an “ibu”, a tent also known as the “place of purification”. That is where the embalmers wash the body in palm wine and rinse it off with water from the Nile. The next step is when one of the men makes a small cut in the left side of the body and removes the liver, lungs, stomach and also intestines. It is important to remove these internal organs because they are one of the fastest to decompose. These internal organs are then washed and packed in natron, a mineral salt that contains hydrated sodium carbonate. The natron will dry out the organs. The heart is not taken out because Egyptians believed that the heart was the center of intelligence and feeling and the body will need it in the afterlife.

The next procedure involves cleaning and cosmetic restoration of the corpse. Before starting restoration, the body is washed, shaved, and hair is shampooed. If the body has missing limbs, they are replaced with molds of plaster. If the head is off, its edges are trimmed and it is sewn to the torso. After cleaning and patching procedures, taking care of swollen parts of the face, the body is dressed, and the mortician makes last touches. He covers the corpse’s skin with pleasantly colored make-up, combs hair, and manicures the hands.

During this stage, which occurs 20 to 50 days after death, all the remaining flesh is removed, after this period and the body dries out. It has a cheesy smell, caused by butyric acid, and this smell attracts a new suite of corpse organisms. The surface of the body that is in contact with the ground becomes covered with mold as the body ferments (What Happens to the Body after Death 1). The body is flat and looks dried out. It eventually can leak through any soft tissues as decomposition progresses. Larval blowflies, flesh flies and houseflies, all called maggots, are abundant in this stage due to the semiliquid environment (Stages of the Human Decomposition Process 1). There is no definite event, such as bloating or purging, that separates stage three from the later, drier stages of decomposition (Stages of the Human Decomposition Process

The mummification process is done in two phases, the first being embalming and the latter being wrapping and burial. There was a special place for embalming to take place known as the ibu. The ibu was called the place of purification. The first thing the embalmers do is to clean his body with aromatic palm wine and rinse it with Nile water. The next step involves removing all but a select few of the internal organs. The process used to remove the internal organs changed over time and varied with the wealth of the body in question. The heart was left in the body because of its necessity as the focal point of mental and emotional stability. The body’s fluids and rags used in this phase are left with the body for its burial. The body is left for a period of

The distribution of skeletal remains tell the scientists how long the bones or individual has been there. The most challenging part for me would have to be finding the little pieces of the puzzle, the missing link or where the body originally was.

- Dissection led to performing autopsies on dead bodies to see what each disease did within the body, and also better understand human anatomy.

The second, or putrefaction, stage of decomposition is when the skin, all over the body, starts to change color (Young & Ortmeier, 2011). Gases begin to be released from inside the body, which causes it to swell, or bloat (enkivillage). As those gases build up, a foul odor begins to emanate from the body, while blisters start to appear on the skin. It is during this stage of decomposition where fluids will be purged through the body’s orifices (Young & Ortmeier, 2011). The active decay stage is where the body will start to lose mass.

A standard method was carbon monoxide from large tank engines which were released into the sealed chambers. The victims were stripped and crowded into these chambers where they died of suffocation. The corpses were removed by Jewish slave laborers and were thrown into mass graves. Then the corpses were burned to destroy any evidence left behind. The process only took a couple of hours and happened multiple times a

The physical appearance preservation of the bog bodies is normally in prime condition. Because of this condition it means that scientists and archaeologists are able to study the features of the body and conclude things like the development of physical evolution from the ancient body to bodies of modern society. They can also obtain information on the cause of death of the body by seeing things like, for example, the Tollund man, who had a rope around his neck that concluded he had been hung to death. And by concluding causes of death, it can also be seen if the body was of sacrificial or a ritual demonstrating what burial practices were in place.

This is why a body farm was created to have enough research how the body decomposes, while teaching forensic anthropologists, forensic pathologists, for medical purposes, to teach students wanting to go into a particular field that involves this kind of work, and even police dogs to recover a missing body. This leads to not only the importance of a body farm, but the benefits it has for the people I just mentioned above, for more research to

Maria Mendoza Jennifer Vacca English 1301 23,September 2014 Word count: 1,000 Critical Analysis: Jessica Mitford, Behind The Formaldehyde Curtain A few ears a go my grand father pass away and fore the first time I went to a funeral home I was probably fifteen at the time. When I went to the funeral home can I saw him in a casket I couldn’t believe what I saw with my own eyes I was sad I saw his hole body. I had deferent type of feelings I was miserable, angry, and unhappy I didn’t know how to react or how to feel when people came up to me I didn’t know what to tell them.

Through a little research on the internet, a website called “Bodies Revealed” informed me of the process used to preserve the bodies, which is known as “polymer preservation.” The bodies that are used first are embalmed according to standard procedures and perfused with a preserving agent to prevent the normal tissue decay that takes place after death. After the body is embalmed, a trained dissector prepares it, or a part of it, according to predetermined guidelines. Because of the degree of difficulty involved in dissecting a full body specimen, it can take several months to complete. If the dissector is working with individual organs, they can be prepared much more quickly. After the dissection is complete, the specimens are thoroughly rinsed in cold running water, which removes as much of the preserving agent as possible. Rinsing a full-body specimen can take up to one week to finish. After the rinsing, the specimen is ready to be dehydrated. They dehydrate the specimens by placing it in acetone, which acts to replace all of the tissue water present in the specimen. The specimen is then impregnated with a mixture of liquid silicone polymer and a crosslinker. The polymer hardens during a curing process, which leaves a dry, odorless specimen that doesn’t decompose. I had the

“Impulse” by Ellen Hopkins is about three teens who attempt suicide and get sent to Aspen Springs a Psychiatric hospital. Conner a tall, athletic, charming rich boy who has the impression that nothing could stand in his way, until he got pushed a little too far over the edge by his parents, and who he thought would be the love of his life, Emily. Tony, a boy with a rough childhood having to spend time in prison for years because of one man. Vanessa, a sweet girl with a not so perfect family, tried forgetting some of her biggest secrets, but shct couldn't quite swallow them. All three had totally different lives, but all had the same desire to take the gun, bottle, and knife and end it all.

But how do you tell what the bodies are getting to? I’ll tell you! There are forensic scientists that study bodies and then try to figure out how, when, where, and why whoever had this body, died! And how do these scientists do it, you ask? I don’t know! But what I do know, is that the scientists look at the height and weight of the skeletons, and then determine what age they were, so that they can then identify who the person was, and what they looked like. By doing this these special scientists

For the past two-hundred years, dissection of the human cadaver has been the gold standard for teaching aspiring medical professionals the networking and layout of the human body. Surprisingly, cadaver usage has had a rather curious history.