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The display of human bodies, muscles, arteries and bones is drawing large crowds to the Detroit Science Center and to museums nationwide. And it has given Thomas Lynch food for thought. Lynch is a funeral director...essayist... and poet. He wonders why it?s easier for people to examine the corpses of strangers than to deal with death in their own families.