A Prague Leader Tries to Bury a Bodies Exhibition, Once and for All
Benda said that This should not be done with dead bodies,
The law dictates that all dead bodies that turn up in a city — whether floating in a river or destitute in the streets — be buried with all necessary speed, Mr. Benda said, and
that they cannot be displayed without the prior written permission of the deceased.
That is so despite the fact — or perhaps because — the bodies are part of "Body: The
Exhibition," yet another of the traveling events made up of the plasticized dead.
By RICK LYMANJULY 1, 2017
PRAGUE — The mayor of one hilly district of Prague, just across the Vltava River from the fairy-tale
towers of Old Town, has some bodies he wants to bury, between 50 and 100 of them.
Mr. Cizinsky said that if — somehow — he prevailed and was able to entomb the bodies, he would do so quietly and with dignity.
Mr. Benda was unswayed by the exhibitor’s contention
that the bodies were so transformed by the plastination process, which replaces body fluids with hardening silicone, that they have become "exhibit artifacts," the term used in customs documents that allowed them into the European Union.
