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{"id":92,"thread_id":43,"author_id":20,"body":"Controversy\r\n\r\nReligious groups, including representatives of the Roman Catholic Church[17] and rabbi She'ar Yashuv Cohen,[18] have objected to the display of human remains, stating that it is inconsistent with reverence towards the human body.\r\n\r\nIn 2002 von Hagens performed the first public autopsy to take place in the United Kingdom in 170 years, before a sold-out audience of 500 people in a London theatre.[19] Prior to performing the autopsy, he had received a letter from Her Majesty's Inspector of Anatomy, the British government official responsible for regulating the educational use of cadavers. The letter warned von Hagens that performing a public autopsy would be a criminal act under section 11 of the Anatomy Act 1984. The show was attended by officers from the Metropolitan Police, but they did not intervene, and the dissection was performed in full. The autopsy was shown in November 2002 on the British Channel 4 television channel; it resulted in over 130 complaints, an OFCOM record, but the Independent Television Commission ruled that the programme had not been sensationalist and had not broken broadcasting rules.[20]\r\n\r\nIn 2003, the television production company Mentorn proposed a documentary called Futurehuman, in which von Hagens would perform a series of modifications on a corpse to demonstrate \"improvements\" to human anatomy. Controversy was sparked when the company, with von Hagens, appealed publicly for a terminally ill person to donate their body for the project. A donor was found, but the documentary was cancelled after the body donor pulled out.[21]\r\n\r\nIn February 2004, the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung confirmed earlier reports by the German TV station ARD that von Hagens had offered a one-time payment and a lifelong pension to Alexander Sizonenko if he would agree to have his body transferred to the Institute of Plastination after his death. Sizonenko, reported to be one of the world's tallest men at 2.48 m (8 ft 2 in), had played basketball for the Soviet Union and was later plagued by numerous health problems until his death in 2012. He declined the offer.[22]\r\n\r\nAfter several legal challenges to the Body Worlds exhibition in Germany, in the Summer of 2004 von Hagens announced that it would be leaving the country. From 2004 onwards, the exhibitions toured North America, returning to Europe in 2007 with an exhibition in Manchester, England, and ending in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2011.[23] Starting in 2009, von Hagens also exhibited in Germany again and opened permanent exhibits in Berlin in 2015 and in Heidelberg in 2017.\r\n\r\nVon Hagens accepted bodies into his collection whose origins he could not verify.[24] Von Hagens stored 647 bodies at his business in Liaoning province, China. Two bodies with bullet holes in their skulls were sourced from Dalian University and some have speculated that these bodies could have been executed prisoners.[25]","revision":1,"deleted_at":null,"created_at":"2026-09-09 10:49:41","updated_at":"2026-09-09 10:49:41"}