If You're Dying, You can be an Art Exhibition

Along with my recent posts of crazy extreme "art" that involves death, here's another one. But this one, finally, is more appropriate and tastefully done that we can actually dub this as art.

German artist Gregor Schneider is looking for people that are about to die and are willing to be a part of his exhibition. He wants to display people dying naturally or somebody who just passed away. The purpose of this is to display the beauty of death. Schneider is currently working with his doctor to look for possible participants.

Unlike the Yale student who induces abortion as "art" and French artist Adel Abdessemed's video exhibition of bashing animals' head with a sledgehammer, this death project can actually merit as art. What's the difference?

Gregor Schneider's project:

• Participants are aware of the project and will give consent before they participate
• Their deaths are natural death, they're not being brutally killed by the artist for the sake of art. Although there are extremes of this, like participants who are willing to be killed by the artist - well that's a whole different controversy all together that will not be discussed here.
• This art exhibition has a purpose. The artist wants to display the beauty of death. This isn't some random senseless act.

The other two so-called "art":

• Participants are NOT aware of the project, or did they give consent. (I am aware that they're fetuses and animals and they can't really give consent. But unless they're creatures who are aware and consciously agree to the project, it's simply not humane.)
• Participants were forcefully murdered, or lied about being murdered. This crosses the line of what's art and what's not. Now you're just playing with lives- you're not an artist at this point, you're a liar and a murderer.
• Those art exhibition has no real purpose. The Yale student claims the "purpose" of her project is to spark conversation about the woman body's functions- by faking stories about purposely getting pregnant just to induce abortion? That's just sick. If she's a real artist, she would think of more tasteful way to achieve her goal. And Abdessemed's animal killing has no purpose at all.