Oh dear Christ

[gremcint]

This will horrify every cat owner on the site.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesi...opter-dead-cat


An artist taxidermied his cat into a remote control helicopter.

[Hyena Dandy]

As a cat owner, I have to say...

Holy fuck

That is EXACTLY what I want to happen when my cats die.

I wish it could have happened to Tootsie... But she was a bit flat...

[Andara Bledin]

Not even remotely horrified, sorry.

So long as the cat was dead prior to the efforts to turn it into absurd pop art, I really don't see the horror it this.

Sure, it's rather a bizarre thing to do (only moderately more bizarre than having a pet or other creature stuffed in the first place), but honestly, the reverence we pay to dead bodies is bizarre in its own right.

^-.-^

[lordlundar]

It would give the cat the ability to scare the crap out of dogs now.

[s_stabeler]

the cat was dead already. I wouldn't do it myself, but don't see the problem myself. apart from wondering if the thng will actually fly. dead cats aren't light, so I'd have expected the cat to be too heavy to fly.

[Andara Bledin]

Well, it's a stuffed dead cat, so I suspect that it's a bit lighter than when it had been alive.

^-.-^

[draco664]

It would give the cat the ability to scare the crap out of dogs now.

You, sir, are full of win. I love this idea.

[LexiaFira]

less horrified and more disgusted as thats...disrespectful. this comes from being taught that even though the person or animal or creature is dead it is not ok to do certain things to the body and this crosses the line. (ie taxidermy where the cat was posed in a nice pose i suppose. or the person made pretty for the funeral but this creeps me out)
from the artist/creator point of view hey a new toy i made i suppose
from a cat owner point of view, WHY, what made him think that...he won't get flack for this?

and from my point of view i don't want a remote taxiderm-ied animal with eyes flying at me ever

and after reading other people's response i still stand by my POV however it doesn't mean i am going to do anything about it

[the_std]

Why is it okay for a cat to be stuffed in a "nice" pose (whatever that is) but not to be put to use like this? It is no longer an animal. It is now a pile of preserved elements. Why does it matter what happens to it?

[Duelist925]

Why is it okay for a cat to be stuffed in a "nice" pose (whatever that is) but not to be put to use like this? It is no longer an animal. It is now a pile of preserved elements. Why does it matter what happens to it?

It's a matter of respect, mostly.

[Andara Bledin]

Meh.

I am still of the opinion that the way our society fetishizes the bodies of the dead is just as bizarre.

^-.-^

[SongsOfDragons]

My mother keeps telling me she wants to be made into a diamond after she dies. You know, the Lifegem process.

I wonder what people would say when I tell them I'm wearing my mother... O.o

[the_std]

I don't think that respect really has to factor into it. You can respect a person without giving a flying fuck about the carbon they used to live in. I do have to agree with Andara about the fetishism of the dead in North American society - it baffles me.

There is more to us than the vehicle we use to carry ourselves through the world - if your car dies, do you refuse to let anyone touch it or freak out when it's repurposed? I think of bodies the same way I do about cars - they were useful and served a purpose while they were functional, but when that function has passed, I don't mourn the car, because there was someone driving the car to make it great in the first place.

[BlaqueKatt]

less horrified and more disgusted as thats...disrespectful. this comes from being taught that even though the person or animal or creature is dead it is not ok to do certain things to the body

we wear , sit on, and eat the dead, or is the line that was crossed totally arbitrary, only applies to humans and pets? The dead are just that, dead, no feelings, no emotions, no concern with "respect" or "disrespect", that's for the living, and it's really more a sign of our own discomfort at being faced with our own mortality. I personally have no fear of death*, nor do I give a rat's patootie what happens to my corpse. Amazingly BodyWorlds is a hugely popular museum exhibit, with corpses preserved, flayed, and made into art.

*If you spend your life frightened of your death, you will have no time to actually live. I'm on "borrowed time", have been for some time, I don't have time to worry about something that I can't control.

[Rapscallion]

On the issue of how we treat our dead, I tend to the view that we treat them with reverence for the sake of those who are left alive. That's really what a funeral is about, and I was at my uncle's yesterday.

He was pretty typical of many of the funerals I've been to, though admittedly I've not been to that many. The deceased often knew it was coming and made preparations calmly, but it was everyone around them that bore the brunt of the emotional impact of the death.

I just wish his preferences for 'no dark colours' had been conveyed to us before the service started. Oh well, I look good in black.

Rapscallion