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Posted on September 2nd 2010 at 4:00pm

I’m sure most of you know about Body Worlds. It’s the world traveling exhibit by Gunther von Hagens that displays plastinated human bodies with the muscles and tendons intact. Body Worlds is considered to be very controversial … but from my point of view, it was extremely interesting and I learned a LOT about the human body.

I digress. Zsa Zsa’s husband, Prince Frederick von Anhalt, wants to plastinate her body after she dies. He says, "My wife has always dreamt that her beauty would be immortal. I would like to show the plastinated body of Zsa Zsa Gabor in the context of a scene in one of her films."

He wants the famous German anatomist Hagens to carry out the procedure. I don’t know how I feel about being able to see a plastinated Gabor. The reason Body Worlds is so popular is because the bodies are totally unrecognizable. Seeing her dead body, yet looking perfectly preserved and wax-like, seems like a bad dream.