Donors seek life after death

May 20, 2007

“More than 7,000 sign up to eventually be part of ‘Body Worlds’ human anatomy exhibit

Stace Owens has no intention of leaving this world when he dies. He plans to stick around for decades or longer, preserved in plastic and displayed in a museum or medical school. The 33-year-old real estate agent is among more than 7,000 people who have agreed to donate their bodies for plastination, a process in which body fluids are replaced by liquid plastic. The plastic hardens, leaving tissues intact and allowing bodies to be displayed in their natural color. . . .”
Article by Thomas Peipert (Chicago Tribune) May 20, 2007, p. 9. Print Edition.