Defending the dead bodies at the Museum of Science

Beth rises to the defense of Bodyworlds, that exhibit at the Museum of Science consisting of "plastinated" bodies, against what she calls the self-appointed morality police:

... if there's one thing I cannot stand, it's when people see something that upsets them and then decide that since it upsets them, it should not be seen by anyone else. They decide that they, and their sensitivities, rule the world--and others should be prevented from having an experience because they found it unpleasant.

These people--the cadavers involved--are serving a purpose after death. They are teaching others about the wonder and beauty and amazing machine that is their body. People volunteering themselves for such study--whether as cadavers or living surgical subjects in the early days of the study of anatomy--are doing a service to the world, and, I think, to themselves. ...