If you haven’t yet caught the “Body Worlds” exhibit you may want to wait a little longer; the best is yet to come, and what could be better than the creator meeting you at the door?
Gunther von Hagens has become (in)famous for his traveling show of plasitinated action cadavers, which has reinvigorated interest in human anatomy in young and old alike. The bodies are “plastinated” “…by using a synthetic resin to freeze semi-dissected bodies in lifelike poses with the skin peeled back,” so that observers can see just what the muscles are doing when one is, say, riding a bike or throwing a ball.
After the sixty-five-year-old von Hagens was diagnosed with Parkinson’s, he announced that he would be joining his work following his death.
"[My wife] will plastinate my body ... [and] my plastinated corpse will then stand in a welcoming pose at the entrance of my exhibition," he said.At least he won’t be lonely on this side of the beyond.
Full story at AOL News.