Curator/historian: "I don't think the people who do these shows have proven where these bodies come from," said Michael Sappol, the curator/historian at the National Library of Medicine and the author of A Traffic of Dead Bodies: Anatomy and Embodied Social Identity in 19th Century America. Their methods "don't meet the current standards of informed consent" about the use of the body after death.
ABC7: We've seen no evidence that these people gave consent for their bodies to put on display, riding a bike or tossing a baseball. Alex Ma, activist: "Chinese respect the human body even after their death, their death, yeah. This way, treating the body is unthinkable."
Director of the Laogai Research Foundation: Harry Wu, director of the Laogai Research Foundation, said that in China a paper document can be created very easily, and you never know if it is legitimate. China has thousands of executions a year and the government never releases any information about them even the families aren't given notice about an execution until after the execution, Wu said. We never know where a cadaver comes from, whether it was donated or obtained illegally.
Gunther von Hagens, promoter of BodyWords, admitted that some of the bodies he exhibited had been shot in the head. Bright Mirror Weekly of Germany reported that Von Hagens has been trading in human corpses and organs for more than ten years. He has three sites for his business, the biggest in Dalian, located close to three Chinese labor camps. The Epoch Times