However, the subject of a scam or a ponzi scheme agrees to the terms of the scam, but that doesn't make said scam ethical.

I am not comparing Mr. Schneider to a scam artist, please! I am merely pointing out that the willing participation of the subject, in and of itself, does not confer ethical respectability to the project.

Is it "art"? Here's the scale to test it on:

Will this be in a museum or even remembered in a thousand years' time?

500 years?

A century?

A decade?

6 months?

Tomorrow?

If anything, this will have a big impact on some people. If Art is about invoking a feeling, memory, opinion, etc in a person or a group of people, than this is better than some mountainous landscape, right?

I don't think it's wrong or that you have to be a lunatic to want to put your death on display. Some people want to die alone at home, and some would want to do something like this. It's your death, I say do whatever the hell you want with it.

There is also nothing beautiful about death.

It can be pain, or it can be peace. But romanticing it is just wrong.

I hope no one actually PAYS to see this exhibit. You can go into the intensive care unit or the cancer wing of any hospital and see this "art."

There is beauty in death, that's for sure. But this guy just comes off as someone trying to make a profit out of a spectacle. It reminds me of that "artist" whose exhibit was letting a dog slowly die over several days. At least in this case he'll have a willing volunteer.

At the very least he needs NOT TO BREED.

As cartoon character Hank Hill would say, "There's just somethin' not right about that boy...."