The Myth of the Human Body

            Last Monday, October 3, 2011, a number of interested students joined the journey for a deeper knowledge about the human body. It was the Myth of the Human Body located at Taguig. The building itself is beautiful. I thought I was in Greece that very moment I saw its structure. The huge statues of gods and goddesses outside were beyond amazing! It’s like the whole structure is alive. It’s really creepy in there at first since those were real corpse of a human being. I imagined that they were modern mummies in display.

The exhibit's purpose and mission is the education of visitors about the human body, leading to better health awareness. It featured real human corpses that have undergone the process of Plastination. All the human plastinates are from people who donated their bodies for plastination via a body donation program which I think happened 20 years ago according to the tour guide. It was so amusing to discover how many millions of tiny particles that makes up our body. All those specimens were processed for months or even years and then brought here in the Philippines to be shown and shared as well as to educate us.

All of the corpses were really awesome! The tour guide said that those corpses were Chinese and only two were Europeans. There are about 300 specimens displayed in their museum. And if there’s a specimen that struck me most, it would be the babies. It was the most haunting. Seeing those babies was a faint of the heart and tear-dropping actually. I really felt sad for them since they came from China also which had a “One-Child Policy” before. So it means they are the ones who were aborted years ago since abortion is a legal act in their country.  The test tube babies were cool too. At a first glance, it looked like an alien from an outer space because it is red in color. I thought it was just blood but if you’d focus your eyes there, you’ll see that even though they are inside the test tubes, they were real babies too. That section was really my favorite. Very fascinating!

Other memorable specimens were those of a sagitally-divided man, a man carrying his peeled off skin on his arm, the pregnant woman with open uterus to show the fetus, and the completely axially-cut human body from head to foot. Actually all of them were really memorable for me. You’ll surely get more than what you paid off. That three hundred fifty peso – exhibit was worth paying for.

The journey was really an amazing experience to witness the perfection in the creation of the mankind: from a single sperm to a human. The journey is stunning for everyone I guess. And after experiencing this, for sure you’ll gain a different perspective about the way you look and care about yourself. You’ll see how creative and excellent God is in creating us.

After that journey, I thanked God for giving me this gift of life, for creating me. I prayed for those corpses there. Kudos to those donors for their precious bodies. I do think that they deserve to be called modern heroes, “The Heroes of the Human Body.”

So what are you waiting for? Better see it for yourself! J