Cathedrals and catacombs at least require some upkeep. If the $.89 is somehow making its way to this man's next of kin then fine. Otherwise it just seems like cynical profiteering.

You're using a fairly useless theory of value for this context.

I do not know what that sentence means.

no it is not and shouldn't. Selling ones last words is body-strapping and a violation of the persons civil liberties. And the market isn't anywhere, it is a defined area with laws as fences and you don't live in wilderness but in society where we people decided that rules improve life.

Besides, this display of dead people similar to one in Palermo/Italy is macabre and mentally healthy people probably have emotions looking at dead people exhibitions, especially since one doesn't learn anything of it.

In contrast to http://www.bodyworlds.com/en/

> one doesn't learn anything of it.

I agree that the sale is in bad taste, but I think you go too far there. At the least some people find value in humbling reminders of our own mortality. In that way it is not entirely dissimilar from guided tours of battlefields, camps, etc. The information that you learn during those can be picked up in more 'sterile' books, but that lacks the emotional impact of actually seeing where something happened, or hearing something happen.

indeed, a confrontation with ones own mortality might help with appreciation of life.

I would differantiate between battlefields and staging dead bodies.

To me the categorical imperativ helps evaluating those situations. Do you want your dead body being kept around as attraction?

If those poor souls didn't freely agree than we don't know their will, so no.

It is similar to keep a real skull around for the giggles, lack of respect.