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Dr Death’s macabre request to wife: put my body on show

Terminally ill inventor of plastination, Gunther von Hagens, asks for his body to be part of London exhibition when he dies

The wife of the German scientist who became known as “Dr Death” for his pioneering work on the preservation of corpses has spoken of her shock when he asked her to plastinate his body after his death.

Dr Gunther von Hagens – the man who invented plastination in the late 1970s – is terminally ill with Parkinson’s disease and has declared his wish to become a permanent part of the Body Worlds exhibition, a vast 2,600 square metres of skulls, organs and cadavers, which opens to the public in London this week.

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