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Leaving one's body to science has been conceived as a final gift to advance medical research or to train medical students. That is quite honorable and generous. But using such a gift for paid entertainment insults both the gift and the giver, even if the dissection also trains students. But such ill treatment makes perfect sense in a society that regards human beings as merely matter in motion. In such a society, the human body--live or dead--has no more significance than the carcass of a beef cow. C. S. Lewis warned us in the Abolition of Man that the conquest of human nature was the next item on humankind's social agenda to be reduced to mere nature by the tools of science. But success in this endeavor would mean the actual triumph of nature over humankind and the end of human history at the hands of elites. This is a matter of power, not really a matter of science. The result? The replacement of humankind with something quite inhuman. But in order to achieve that hubris, society must first be conditioned to regard human life as mere matter, a resource to be used to achieve desired ends. But the anti-human bias in this point of view will always remain hidden from public view by a benign facade--behind which lurks a horrible animosity toward human freedom, creativity, honor, and love. In Lewis' novel, That Hideous Strength, the agency with anti-human objectives was named benignly as the National Institute of Coordinated Experiments--NICE. That was its facade. Your article penetrates just such a facade in the medical industry to expose the moral darkness lurking beneath.

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Nov 9, 2021Liked by Sarah Cain

An abomination, but excellent work spreading awareness. There really aren't words which can accurately describe how far society has fallen. Sad as sad can be.

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Although I do not identify as a Christian (I am Bahai) I am in total agreement that this is sacrilege and a horrifying practice. I was a nurse in a hospital and worked for hospice and agree that it is unthinkable that normal curiosity has morphed into this sadistic fascination with death and a total disregard for bodies which were created by God.

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What is happening to our society today is horrifying! As usual, though, this is an excellent and well thought out article, Sarah! I'm sharing this with my church family!

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It’s disgusting!

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. . . they became futile in their thinking and their foolish hearts were darkened.

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My fear for the future is they will drag a body through the streets and say the only good patriot is a dead one. One more way to horrify us.

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We’ve begun the descent and the slippery slope is indeed steep, can we stop?

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Much of our modern culture mutes the sanctity of life. In addition, the experience of dying is relegated to hospitals or senior living facilities in much of our population. We can see plenty of fake death in entertainment, and read or hear about others dying in war zones, crimes, accidents, and various other ways. So much "useless" death. We become numb, and we detach. What could be learned from the reverent ways that some other cultures treat their dead loved family and community members? Perhaps it's time to ask.

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I hadn't heard of that opening story before, but why is it that I am not at all surprised at its happening? When we can openly murder living babies in the womb, the open mutilation of a corpse for entertainment is not exactly a leap.

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