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SEATTLE, Oct 17, 2006 (UPI via COMTEX) -- Two Seattle museum operators have sued a body show, claiming that "Bodies: The Exhibition" uses cadavers from people who did not consent to postmortem display.
Charlette LeFevre and Philip Lipson run the Seattle Museum of the Mysteries, which features displays on unidentified flying objects and Bigfoot and ghost tours. They say that Premier Exhibition, the Atlanta company that owns the body show, has violated the U.S. Anatomical Gift Act, which bans the sale of body parts, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported.
Premier acknowledges that its cadavers come from China. But company officials say that it does not buy them, instead having a working arrangement with Dalian Medical University in China and its plastination lab, the Post-Intelligencer said.
"Bodies: The Exhibition" is one of several similar exhibits touring the United States and other countries. Like the original one, "Body Worlds," the shows feature bodies that have been skinned and displayed to show muscles and internal organs.
A judge has denied a request to close the show immediately. LeFevre and Lipson plan a candlelight vigil outside the show on Halloween, the newspaper said.
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