The founder of animal rights charity PETA has announced plans to send dissected pieces of her body to world leaders after she dies.
It is the second time Ingrid Newkirk has published her last will and testament in a bid to draw attention to some of the animal abuses PETA finds abhorrent.
PETA first published the document in 2003 and now 20 years later, the organisation has launched an updated version – with special bequests for some of the biggest names in world politics.
Speaking to Newstalk Breakfast, Ms Newkirk said she will now send a piece of her neck to King Charles III, her leg to the Grand National and her heart to Elon Musk.
“I won't need my body when I’m gone, so I'm donating bits of it with suggestions as to how it can be used to prolong my animal rights activism,” she said.
“I've seen awful things done to animals; I've inspected factory farms, abattoirs and laboratories.
“I want to provoke various discussions of issues that [the public] may not think about."
Her neck
Ms Newkirk said she will send a piece of her neck to King Charles III to draw attention to pigeon racing.
“It seems benign, but it isn’t,” she said.
“It's terribly cruel, and these pigeons who are lovely, good parents and wonderful, sensitive animals have their necks rung when they come back and they're losers.”
Ingrid Newkirk's will requests (Credit: PETA)Her heart
Ms Newkirk will send her heart to Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
“It is not a sign of love – it's because I don't think he has a heart,” she said.
“He conducts these experiments on monkeys and pigs and he's been responsible for the death of 150 monkeys in those Neuralink experiments.
“I'm giving him a bit of my heart so he can clone it and get one of his own.”
The process
A pathologist in California has agreed to carry out the dissection after Ms Newkirk’s death.
“My body – should it be intact – is to go to her and she signed a legal agreement that she will do this,” she said.
“We'll have to look at the regulation.
“I've got a bit of my liver going to France to object to foie gras production.
“It might not be allowed into France, but we'll see what we can do.”
The activism
Ms Newkirk said her public will is part of an attempt to draw attention to animal cruelty, with a specific focus on animal testing.
“I think it's a bit of a fallacy and it's been torn apart so much by progressive scientists,” she said.
“It's the 21st century, we don't have to force feed an animal a chemical or stick an electric rod down their head.
“There needs to be an emphasis on getting rid of the truly extraordinarily cruel [experiments] that are absolutely meaningless."
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