Via MetaFilter comes a link to a story in Monday’s Der Spiegel which claims that the man behind the popular-but-creepy Body Worlds exhibit of plastinated human bodies, Dr. Gunther von Hagens, plans to sell horizontal cross-section slices of plastinated bodies to the general public. Von Hagens has sold bodies and body parts to medical schools and other accredited academic institutions in the past, but never to the public.
But before you start making plans for your next backyard barbecue, Dr. von Hagens has released a statement saying that the Spiegel story is false. He claims he was merely speculating publicly about the feasibility of such an enterprise, limiting sales to "qualified individuals", not announcing any actual plans.
Looks like you’ll have to place your orders with ManBeef.com (yes, surprisngly, that link has NOT been turned into a gay porn site even after all these years).
