Damaged Corpses Get 3D Printed Body Parts At Chinese Funeral Home

In China, there are many who die because of natural disasters, not to mention traffic and industrial accidents being yet another two causes of death – and more often than not, those events mentioned would most probably involve damage to body parts and bone structures as well. How then, can one have a presentable corpse at the funeral? Why, harness the power of 3D printing for body parts, of course. It looks like 3D printing of body parts will benefit not only the living, but the deceased as well.

This is exactly what a funeral home in Shanghai has begun to do, 3D printing body parts so that they can assist in repairing disfigured or damaged corpses. This 3D printing repair service can be obtained from the Longhua Funeral Parlor that will involve building multiple layers of material on top of each other, resulting in a three-dimensional product.

Not only that, it will be accompanied by two other major factors – hair implants and makeup in order to assist in reconstructing faces, citing a similarity level of 95% at the very minimum, now how about that? Liu Fengming, director of Shanghai’s funeral services center, shared, “It is difficult for relatives to see incomplete faces or bodies of their loved ones when they attend memorial services, and makeup cannot always sufficiently repair them.” Hence, it looks like this might be something that could very well catch on in that part of the world.

Edwin Kee
Categories: General
Tags: 3D Printing