About+Body+Worlds

__About Body Worlds:__

Body Worlds is a museum-type-thing that displays dead human bodies that have been stripped of flesh, and posed. It is a travelling exhibition of a large collection of both animal and human bodies and body parts, preserved with a technique called plastination. This process serves to reveal inner organs and structures, as well as being vaguely artistic.

The plastination process was invented by a man named Gunther von Hagens. Gunther (a.k.a. Crazy German Man) discovered his plastination technique while working on slicing kidneys. Why, I'm not sure. But he needed a way to preserve them that took less time, and stuff. So, basically, it was laziness that spawned Body Worlds. Huh. So he used liquid Plexiglass, but he didn't like that, so he used silicone rubber instead, but the kidney died. He tried again, this time taking the process more slowly, and, voila, preserved kidney, and the new focus of his life, PLASTINATION.