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No, I don't want to buy one. This came out of a discussion about my brother, who is so much weirder than me if you can believe it, who owns a real human skull.

I don't know how he got it. I don't know where he got it from, maybe this company, more importantly, I don't know why he would want such a thing. He is not a scientist, he works in IT. He did get an MFA in theater, wanted to be a professional theater director and loves Shakespeare, I can't believe the reason was because he wanted Hamlet to be super authentic.

We're not all that close, so it really hasn't come up in conversation. I only know about it because he posted elsewhere a while back that he was on a Zoom meeting at work and he showed it off and couldn't understand why everyone stopped laughing and got silent. So obviously he thinks it's cool to own it.

It used to be a person. I'm an atheist and I don't believe in an afterlife, but that's just basic disrespect.

Anyway... how can you ethically source a skull and then sell it on the open market?

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[-] Worx@lemmynsfw.com 8 points 2 months ago

I own a real human skull; my parents gave it to me

[-] lefixxx@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

There is nothing you can do to my body that I will find disrespectful.

[-] paddirn@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] finley@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

[-] DemocratPostingSucks@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago

We're not all that close

Sounds like you should keep it that way lol, what kind of freak shows off a human skull?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

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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[-] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 7 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Hugin@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 months ago

he works in IT

Tell him that buying one instead of harvesting fresh from your local tech company CEO is a total wuss move

[-] CascadianGiraffe@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

This makes me think I need an addition to my will...

to make sure my kid can sell my remains for profit!

[-] shasta@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago
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[-] oldfaintinggoat@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Sunset Mesa Funeral Home has entered the chat.

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Hell they can have mine if they want, if they put me out of my misery they can have it right now.

[-] tilefan@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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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[-] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

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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[-] nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 4 points 2 months ago

Propably the same way universities get theirs. If you don't get a passing grade you pass.

[-] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Sorry, but I fail to see the problem with him owning a skull

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[-] Bougie_Birdie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 months ago

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).

[-] EnderMB@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

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.

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