KDH: Human Body Exhibition Should Be Banned, It's Unethical and Illegal
A human body exhibition set to be held again in Slovakia in August is unethical and unlawful, claims the extra-parliamentary Christian Democrats (KDH), who call for the exhibition to be banned, KDH spokesman Stano Zupa told TASR on Sunday.
At the same time, KDH will call on the Government and MPs to adopt a ban on using mummified human bodies for commercial purposes. Slovak doctors and the Slovak Bishops Conference (KBS) have also taken up a critical stance on the exhibition, claim the Christian Democrats.At the same time, KDH will call on the Government and MPs to adopt a ban on using mummified human bodies for commercial purposes. Slovak doctors and the Slovak Bishops Conference (KBS) have also taken up a critical stance on the exhibition, claim the Christian Democrats.
“Exhibiting human bodies is unethical and morbid. We can talk about the defamation of corpses when they are treated like this. The dead human bodies displayed at the human body exhibition are the real bodies of people; people who were once alive, who had families, their own life stories. We don’t know who these people are. We have no idea whether they wanted to become exhibits,” said Zupa.
The Christian Democrats pointed not only to the ethical aspect, but also to the legal one, claiming that the exhibition is unlawful. “This exhibition is illegal, as according to currently valid legislation, a human body should be buried within 96 hours of death, but no sooner than within 24 hours of death,” stated KDH.
According to KDH, Parliament should adopt an amendment to the burial law that would explicitly stipulate that mummified human bodies cannot be used for commercial purposes. “Such an amendment has also been adopted in the Czech Republic. It would ensure that dead human bodies are not defiled in the future,” said the Christian Democrats.
A human body exhibition was first held in Slovakia in 2012, when it caused critical reactions not only among conservative politicians. The next exhibition of this kind, entitled ‘Bodies: The Exhibition’ is set to open in a few days.
