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"It's scary"- Scientists finding mounting evidence of plastic pollution in human organs
(www.thenewlede.org)
this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2024
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Gonna make being cremated smell different.
Ooh. Cremation is gonna get more expensive if they have to put pollution filters on the chimneys due to all the burning plastic.
Eventually it'll be like cremating people from that Bodies exhibit. The one where they have bodies that have been injected with some kind of resin to preserve them for anatomy study.
You mean Body Worlds. And they're not injected with resin, all liquid in their bodies is exchanged, turning the bodies literally into plastic.
I believe that they went to ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodies:_The_Exhibition
is what they are referring to here.
https://www.npr.org/2006/08/11/5637687/origins-of-exhibited-cadavers-questioned
https://www.thestranger.com/blogs/2009/09/29/2353961/return-of-the-corpses
et cetera