Ep 34 - Human Compost and Plastination

Summary: For those who don’t like the thought of burial or cremation, new ways of disposing of human bodies are being found, including composting and hydrolysis. Gunther Von Hagens is the German scientist known as Dr Death. He invented the process of plastination which preserves human bodies so they can be put on display. We look at how it is done, and where do the bodies come from?