'Dr Death' Gunther Von Hagens To Unveil Corpse Crucifix For Easter

Find Out What 'Dr Death' Has Planned For Easter

Controversial anatomist Gunther von Hagens, who was behind the Body Worlds displays of corpses, is to reveal his latest exhibit - a crucifix.

Von Hagens invented the technique of "plastination" for preserving human bodies with their muscles, veins and bones on display while working at the University of Heidelberg in the 1970s.

His Body Worlds exhibition featuring hundreds of cadavers from babies to the elderly in lifelike poses has toured the globe and in 2009 he created a couple having sex using two dead bodies.

His latest piece, which has been six years in the planning, was created by injecting liquid plastic into bones and blood vessels from a number of donors' bodies, which then hardened to create casts.

The resulting figure, which does not contain any human tissue, was then mounted on a wooden cross cut from a tree felled near von Hagen's family home in Germany.

He said: "What's important to me is that I want to move people's minds and souls.

"It's a life's work and I'm at a time in my life when I feel called to see this through. The clock is ticking."

The Crucifix will be revealed in a Channel 4 documentary, Crucifixation, on Easter Sunday.

What do you think of the idea of a crucifix made of corpses?

Check out pictures from Gunther von Hagens' Body Worlds exhibition - if you dare...

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