There is nothing you can do to my body that I will find disrespectful.
this post was submitted on 01 Sep 2024
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I own a real human skull; my parents gave it to me
I’m not looking to buy either, that’s so weird… but I do have some to sell. They don’t ask questions do they? I just need to get these off my hands, literally, I’ve been carrying these bags around for awhile. Human skulls are heavy.
Would it not be an absolute havoc? Like if your house gets searched by police and then they have to treat it as a potential murder scene.
Anyway, to answer your question, I guess if someone died and was willing to sell their skull
My grandfather was an anthropologist and had a human skull. He had some paperwork that showed how it wad obtained. When he died one of my aunts inherited it.
I’m an organ donor. Says so on my ID.
I extra don’t care what happens to my body after I die. I won’t be using it any more. If it can help others, that’s nice.
We're not all that close
Sounds like you should keep it that way lol, what kind of freak shows off a human skull?
You have no idea. I wouldn't even know where to begin.
Let's just say that one of the least weird things about him is that he goes beyond veganism- he also won't eat anything with salt or any sort of oil. No cooking with oil, no oil-based salad dressings.
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he works in IT
Tell him that buying one instead of harvesting fresh from your local tech company CEO is a total wuss move
Hell they can have mine if they want, if they put me out of my misery they can have it right now.
yeah, I don't entirely understand resource hoarding after death, or accepting peer pressure from dead people. make me into cat food and coffee table decorations, or fertilizer, I don't care
what I'd rather not is have my flesh pumped full of chemicals that make my resources unusable to the local biome for a few decades.
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This makes me think I need an addition to my will...
to make sure my kid can sell my remains for profit!
Sunset Mesa Funeral Home has entered the chat.
Look, you buy a car and add pollution in the air. You buy a skull and contribute to people being killed and harvested for skulls. What's the difference?
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Alongside the story for "donating to science", by proxy that donation can also be extended to other industries, like the arts.
There have been several stories of people donating their bodies to science, with the provision that their skull be used for Hamlet, or other shows where a bone may be used as a prop. I believe there was a story around a Polish pianist dedicating his skull to solely be used for a production of Hamlet, with David Tennant using his skull in the show.
Reminds me of this bit
Here's a "fun" tidbit: even as late as the 1980's it was cheaper for films to buy actual human remains than convincing fake skeletons. This happened famously in Poltergeist (1982).
Propably the same way universities get theirs. If you don't get a passing grade you pass.