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{"id":94,"thread_id":43,"author_id":20,"body":"Personal life and death\r\n\r\nVon Hagens described himself as an agnostic, believing that the human mind is not constructed to answer such a question as the existence of God, and he instead put all his faith into the human body.[32][33]\r\n\r\nHe was married to Angelina Whalley, the creative director of the Body Worlds exhibitions.[1] He has three children from his first marriage and also retained his first wife's surname, \"von Hagens\".[5] When appearing in public, even when performing anatomical dissections, von Hagens always wore a black fedora (a reference to the hat worn in The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp by Rembrandt).[34]\r\n\r\nVon Hagens said that his grand goal is the founding of a \"Museum of Man\", where exhibits of human anatomy can be shown permanently. He once commented that after death he planned to donate plastinated wafers of his own body to several universities, so that in death he can (physically) teach at several locations, something he could not do while alive.[15] However, he later changed his mind about this.[35]\r\n\r\nIn January 2011, von Hagens announced that he was suffering from Parkinson's disease and that after his death his wife would plastinate his body and put his preserved corpse on display as part of the Body Worlds exhibitions.[36] In October 2018, before the opening of a Body Worlds exhibition in London to put plastinated human body parts on permanent display, von Hagens said he wanted his own remains one day to be posed in the entrance, with his hand outstretched to greet visitors.[35]\r\n\r\nVon Hagens died from a cerebral haemorrhage complicated by Parkinson's disease on 24 July 2026, at the age of 81.[37][38]","revision":1,"deleted_at":null,"created_at":"2026-09-09 10:51:21","updated_at":"2026-09-09 10:51:21"}