Television company wants terminally ill patient to plastinate

Plans have been announced to televise the rebuilding of a donated human corpse by the television production company Mentorn. The company is currently searching for a palliative care patient donor who is willing to be “filmed, preserved, dissected, and modified into a new improved human form.”

The programme's aim will be to identify “design flaws” in the body and to explore how they could be overcome. A panel of as yet unnamed experts will identify problems and suggest potential alterations. It is likely that the panel will include some non-medical professionals such as mechanical engineers and architects, as …