The Crazy Rants of Samantha Burns

It seems like the creator of the Body Worlds exhibits, which have been travelling the world, is now creating a corpse factory.

I wonder if they'll be giving out free samples of corpso-cola and candied carcasses.

Actually, the "factory" won't likely be selling the products they make, instead they will be enabling their tourists to watch the processes of body preservation.

He will be calling it the Plastinarium.

Gunther von Hagens' newest addition to his displays of preserved human and animal bodies and organs, which have attracted more than 20 million viewers around the world, is aimed at offering the public what he calls a unique view of the preservation process, called "plastination."

Plastination preserves the corpses by replacing body fluids with liquid plastic. The plastic is hardened, leaving tissues intact. Bodies can then be displayed without formaldehyde or glass containers, so onlookers can come within centimetres of exposed organs.

For more information on the Body World exhibits, visit Larry Hnetka Goes HMmmm, Diane's Stuff, or read my opinion in Morbid Or Beautiful?