stackyFACTSThe ultimate narcissist move. The utilitarian philosopher requested his body be preserved as an 'auto-icon', and to this day, his taxidermized corpse just sits in a wooden cabinet in London.
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Refusing to let something as trivial as death interrupt his influence, the founder of utilitarianism demanded his body be preserved. His skeletal remains,…
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