Why Don't We Taxidermy Humans?
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Published on Dec 12, 2012
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Big thanks to my friend at Order Of The Good Death for info: http://www.youtube.com/user/OrderoftheGoodDeath
Music by: http://www.youtube.com/jakechudnow
Song at end of video [direct link]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q_47b507vg
Taxidermied animal from "Unnecessary Otter": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiJZ47G78XQ
Space Burial: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_burial
Get yourself space-buried: http://www.celestis.com/services.asp
Cat body turned into diamonds: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324020804578149662961901842.htm...
CHUCK TESTA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJP1DphOWPs
Taxidermy cat quadcopter: http://www.geekologie.com/2012/06/weirdo-turns-his-taxidermied-cat-into-a.php
Creative taxidermy:
http://www.incrediblethings.com/lists/taxidermy-gone-wild/
http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/obsessed-taxidermy-rachel-poliqui...
http://www.geekologie.com/2011/12/man-arrested-for-taxidermy-ing-together.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Potter
Interesting article on displaying human bodies: http://www.livescience.com/12994-body-worlds-human-taxidermy.html
Jeremy Bentham "mummy": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_bentham
3D Jeremy Bentham: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Bentham-Project/who/autoicon/Virtual_Auto_Icon
Get mummified: http://www.summum.org/mummification/enshrinement.shtml
Galileo's Middle Finger: http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/galileos-middle-finger
Taxidermy on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxidermy
Skin facts [PDF]: http://www.particlesciences.com/docs/technical_briefs/TB_3.pdf
Freeze-drying your pets:
http://wefeelthepainforanimals.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/i-dont-know-what-to-say...
http://www.perpetualpet.net/price/
Abraham Lincoln's moving body:
http://rogerjnorton.com/Lincoln13.html
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=n0EEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA87&redir_esc=y#v...
Embalmbed guy on motorcycle: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1269846/The-quick-dead-Embalmed-biker...
Lenin video [gross]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMDwXnAWja0
After We Die [BOOK]: http://bit.ly/SRlX0h
How plastination works: http://isp.plastination.org/silicone.html
How to be plastinated [PDF]: http://www.bodyworlds.com/Downloads/Temp/Amsterdam12/BoDo/KSP_Broschuere_EN_E...
Ways of preserving your body compared: http://www.transtopia.net/plastination.html
What parts of your body do you own? http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/rethinking-healthcare/which-body-parts-should...
Who owns a dead body? http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2002/03/habeas_...
Who owns a dead body and Anthony-Noel Kelly: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2001/jan/30/1
Pet taxidermy video [kind of gross]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=-2UvYTXiaxw
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this video was a creepy one
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I've seen the body world exhibit. its pretty amazing
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XD I'VE BEEN TO BODY WORLDS
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LOL does this make anyone else shiver
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GENIUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I knew that, just seeing what everyone was going to say.
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I plan to be cremated, have my ashes mixed with a clear resin, ground up into a sand like consistency, then placed in an hour glass. That way, I can still spend time with my loved ones after I'm dead.
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pervertedvidpirate 2 hours ago
maybe he wanted to see a flying pussy?
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SuperPotatounicorn 3 hours ago
Could you put your body on your will??????
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Sinchu9 23 hours ago
So his cat could fly, cuz all cats wish they could fly
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i wonder if mike always used to got 100 on his sci tests
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