"You conducted an investigation into a German factory that dismembers and disposes of human bodies?"
"Indeed, the so-called plastinarium officially exists since 1977. It was
created in the GDR, but then it developed to a national and even global
level. The company's headquarters is located in the north of Germany,
near the Polish border.
"In today's Germany, there are several centers of production. We call it
the "secondary use of human bodies." The factory has special tanks to
dissolve bodies and other technical facilities required for the
extraction of chemical elements from human bodies. If you are a
journalist or a business man, you may feel free to go there. I went
there in 2006. The factory is located in Brandenburg, in the town of
Guben."
"Why are they doing it to the bodies? Why so many corpses? Even if
someone wants to create an art show of plasticized people, they will not
run a whole factory to do it. Any production requires profitability,
otherwise it makes no sense to work."
"The plastinarium is a showcase. In Berlin, there is a permanent
exhibition of corpses. The firm has registered its trade mark and
organizes exhibitions around the world - including in the UK, Japan,
USA, etc. However, it is forbidden in France and Russia. The society
thus tries to help science, but this is just a way to justify the
activity of the company.
"Officially, their shows are supposed to demonstrate the functions of
internal organs of human beings. In fact, the factory conducts the
industrial processing of the deceased. In Poland and Germany, there are
warehouses of processed human remains. It is quite possible that derivatives are used in cosmetics. Different
parts of the human skeleton, tendons and so on can be used in modern
industry indeed. They send batches of dead bodies to China too."
"Do you mean that the Germans have learned to dispose of various body
parts and dissolve them into constituent elements for either easier
recycling or use in the chemical industry and, perhaps, in the
agricultural sector?"
"Yes. I am also surprised that there is no reaction either from
Berlin or Brussels. As a matter of fact, it goes about pressure on lone
elderly individuals, who live their last days in hospices and so on.
They are nearly forced to sign papers to refuse from their own bodies
after death. And all are silent about it.
"In Germany, there are about 23 million pensioners. All of them need to
be taken care of. There are many lonely individuals among them too.
Every year, about 800,000 people die in Germany. In 30 years, the rate
will grow to one million people a year. Germany is limited in its land
resources, and it is hard to handle the problem of funerals at this
point. Here is where the plastinarium comes forward as an ingenious
solution to the problem of death and the disposal of the remains."
Life after death: Europe recycles the elderly - PravdaReport
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