Moderator :

• Anne-Marie Dussault

Panelists :

• Régis Olry: UQTR professor, anatomist and plastination expert
  
• André Beauchamp: ethicist, theologian, expert in public consultations and former chair of the Quebec science and technology ethics commission
  
• Antoine Robitaille: journalist for Le Devoir and author of a soon-to-be-released book on transhumanism, posthumanism and cyborgism (Le nouvel homme nouveau, Boréal)
• Serge Bouchard: anthropologist and host of the Radio-Canada program Les chemins de travers
  
• Édith Deleury: legal expert, professor emeritus with the Université Laval faculty of law and chair of the Quebec science and technology ethics commission

Some people will find the BodyWorlds 2 exhibition fascinating, unsettling, eye-opening or disturbing. It is certainly shocking. And it definitely raises a host of questions.

Is it right to display the bodies of dead people? Is it morally and ethically acceptable? Does it offend our sense of decency? Does it allow us to confront death? Does it pave the way for more absurd ways of preserving bodies after death? Why would people want to see them?

The Forum, moderated by Anne-Marie Dussault and with input from the guest experts, will take a personal, relaxed approach as a way of encouraging participants to share their opinions and think more deeply about these sensitive issues.

The forum was organized at the suggestion of the advisory committee set up by the Montréal Science Centre to help it prepare to host the BodyWorlds 2 exhibition.

With the participation of the Quebec science and technology ethics commission (CEST).