X-Message-Number: 20230
From: "Mark Plus" <>
Subject: "Transhumanism" for dead people
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 22:44:34 -0700

[And people think cryonics offends human decency! -- MP]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/2280365.stm

Channel 4 has defended a "serious and educational" TV show which follows the 
dissection and rebuilding of a human corpse.

Independent production company Mentorn is proposing to interview a 
terminally ill patient - and then dissect and rebuild his or her body after 
death, incorporating "improvements".

The company, which also makes Question Time and Robot Wars for the BBC, is 
working on the proposal with the controversial anatomist behind the Body 
Works show in London, Professor Gunter von Hagens.

Mentorn executive producer Nick Curwin has maintained the programme, 
described in a company press release as the "ultimate makeover show", is a 
serious scientific inquiry....

The "modifications" will be carried out by Professor von Hagens.

The changes may include increasing the number of ribs to give better 
protection to internal organs, creating backward-bending knees to lessen 
wear and tear on the joints and rearranging the trachea and oesophagus to 
stop food going down the windpipe by mistake.







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