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Death, but make it a decor choice — bodies turned into teaching aids that never decompose.
means The process of preserving a body (or tissue) by replacing its fluids with polymers, so it holds its shape and texture permanently instead of rotting.
from A 20th-century coinage built from 'plastic' (from Greek 'plastikos', meaning moldable or fit for shaping) plus the verb-forming '-ify' and noun suffix '-ation'. The technique itself — polymer preservation of tissue — was developed and named by a German anatomist in the late 1970s, who patented the process under a related term; 'plastification' followed the pattern of that invention, describing literally what happens: flesh made plastic, shaped and fixed forever in the pose of a lesson.
- the process
- water and fat swapped for liquid polymer
- invented by
- Gunther von Hagens, patented it in 1977
- body worlds
- exhibit has shown real plastinated corpses worldwide
- shelf life
- specimens stay intact for roughly 4000 years