From the Body Worlds website:
Body Donation for Plastination
All anatomical specimens on display in the BODY WORLDS exhibitions are authentic. They belonged to people who declared during their lifetime that their bodies should be made available after their deaths for the qualification of physicians and the instruction of laypersons. Many donors underscore that by donating their body, they want to be useful to others even after their death. Their selfless donations allow us to gain unique insights into human bodies, which have thus far been reserved for physicians at best. Therefore, we wish to thank the living and deceased body donors.
“Donate” but maybe a deal could have been worked out to provide a royalty to a charity group for the use of the body perpetually on tour. I am not sure a person’s family would ever want to see them as such nor get a royalty check from the “Tour”.
Cult of death stuff.
Should this really be shown to kids?