Among other things, he suggested that "if all bodies were embalmed then every man might be his own statue."  
His book, Auto-Icon, or the Uses of the Dead to the Living, was in some ways typical of his more general philosophy of wasting as little as possible.  Among other things, he suggested that "if all bodies were embalmed then every man might be his own statue."  As luck would have it, his preserved corpse thus stood--or more accurately, sat--as a reminder of the intellectual traditions of University College, London, where his behavior during meetings was recorded as "present, but not voting," long after his 1832 death.  FTP name this English Utilitarian philosopher and corpse, the author of Principles of Morals and Legislation.
His book, Auto-Icon, or the Uses of the Dead to the Living, was in some ways typical of his more general philosophy of wasting as little as possible.  
Jeremy Bentham