the.com/plastification

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
the.com · every word