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The man in the cabinet turns out to be Jeremy Bentham, an influential London philosopher (and the founder of Utilitarianism) who had his body preserved and set into a cabinet he called his "auto-icon" (see more here).

Archive 2009-06-01 Heather McDougal 2009

The man in the cabinet turns out to be Jeremy Bentham, an influential London philosopher (and the founder of Utilitarianism) who had his body preserved and set into a cabinet he called his "auto-icon" (see more here).

A Bit of Soap Heather McDougal 2009

Something that caught my attention was the part about the auto-icon.

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He is on display at a university in England, sitting in a chair, in something he called an “auto-icon” – a big glass display case.

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They messed up his head during the preservation process, so he’s always had a wax head in the auto-icon.

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Bentham’s last will and testament also infamously included the highly unusual stipulation that his body be publicly dissected and preserved as an “auto-icon”.

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