Florida: Plasti Nation

The inner 10-year old girl of the Attorney General of Florida decided that we shouldn't see the yucky parts of ourselves and issued a ruling that puts approval of a museum exhibition of plastinated human bodies.

"BODIES: The Exhibition" features 20 cadavers and 260 other parts preserved with a process that replaces human tissue with silicone rubber. Skin is removed, exposing muscles, bones, organs, tendons, blood vessels and brains.

The board that oversees the use of human specimens at Florida's medical schools wants proof that the deceased or their families authorized the use of the bodies.

The bodies were obtained legally but belonged to Chinese people who died unidentified or unclaimed by family members and were preserved at the Dalian Medical University of Plastination Laboratories in China, according to the exhibition's medical director, Roy Glover.

Have no doubt...the right of government to micromanage your life is sacred in Florida. If it was life that was actually sacred, Cuban and Haitian refugees traveling here by car wouldn't be intercepted by the Coast Guard and turned away. They'd be dropped off at the Florida Welcome Center, fed a warm meal, put in touch with any relatives they might have, handed a booklet in Spanish that explained what minimum wage was, and allowed to stay. Instead, they have to face being shark-bait again.