Kathryn 'Missy' Simnacher

While in Phoenix recently for the 100 year birthday party for my husband’s aunt Minnie, we visited the Arizona Science Center to view the Body Worlds 3 exhibit. A German anatomists has come up with a way to preserve bodies after death so that they will not decay. He uses these bodies to illustrate to medical students (and now to the world) everything about the human body you could ever want to know, in living color. I’m not sure I’d want my body used in that way, but these people evidently believed in what he is doing and donated their bodies to him after death. Nearly everyone was talking about their own joint, ligament, or organ problems and pointing out things to the people they were with. You could really see the toll that disease and lifestyle choices have on the body.