The Art of Taxidermy

While I was looking at my classmates blogs I stumbled across an interesting post by Ethan. The post was about a video that posed the question why don't we taxidermy humans?

First off I should give a little back story: I'm not an Anthropology major, not even an Anthropology minor. I took this class on a suggestion of one of my History in Art professors. When my group realized that I was no akin to the world of dead humans they began to find merriment in finding new ways to gross me out every time we met. I don't know if they like the faces of horror I make or giggle at my complete lack of knowledge that there are places that actually take dead people and stick them in something called a body farm. I swear this shit is straight outta "Bones".. The point is that Ethan is in my group and he has once again completely put me out of my element by posting that video

When I watched it my toes were a bit curled I won't lie. My initial reaction was gross, why would I want my dead Grandma in the living room, I might as well be the creepy guy that keeps his dead mom from "Psycho". Then I remembered that probably the biggest thing I have learned during my time in the Anthropology department is to have an open mind and give things a chance before I make a judgement.

With that in mind I still don't want Grams sitting on the couch with me but I can appreciate the video and I do find it interesting.