Update, Feb. 24, 2020: While Jeremy Bentham's preserved head is still on display, his preserved body has been moved to a new, very public home in a glass box in the University College London's ...

That might sound more than a tad grim, but is exactly what happened in the case of Jeremy ... It was Bentham’s wish that, after he died, his body be dissected and preserved so – legend has ...

This is Jeremy Bentham's head. He was better looking in real life ... to donate their bodies to science and wanted his own to be preserved as an "auto-icon" which would serve as a rather creepy ...

Few are as unique as Jeremy Bentham’s preserved head and skeleton, though. The philosopher had his skeleton de-fleshed, dressed it up in one of his standard black suits, and stuck his mummified ...

The mummified head of Jeremy Bentham Credit: UCL In 2006 ... who also asked for his head to be preserved, and mammoth tusk, Hair and tooth dating back around 10,000 years. The exhibition What ...

Jeremy Bentham died in 1832 ... for him to be dissected after death and preserved as an 'auto-icon.' Now, Bentham's 269-year-old decomposing head will appear on display for the first time in ...

One day toward the beginning of March, an unusual object arrived at a New York City airport. Carefully encased in a foam-padded, specially built wooden chair and strapped in with a bright-blue ...

Philosopher Jeremy Bentham led an unusual life ... Bentham had made a special request that his head be preserved in the style of the Maori, the Native New Zealanders. But his friend, Dr. Southwood ...

This is Jeremy Bentham's head. He was better looking in real life ... to donate their bodies to science and wanted his own to be preserved as an "auto-icon" which would serve as a rather creepy ...

Jeremy Bentham’s Auto-Icon remains on display ... but for a time his own, badly preserved, head lay at his feet inside the wooden and glass box built to house him. Until 1989 that is, when ...