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Technus ,

Pretty sure this is legal, they just wouldn’t release an unembalmed corpse for health reasons.

Wouldn’t OP just have to find a qualified mortician willing to do the work?

VelvetStorm ,

You can absolutely get the corpse unembalmed but you won’t find any mortician willing to do this. You can do it yourself with a ton of Dermestid beetles, though, but it’s gonna smell awful.

Technus ,

There’s gotta be a service that does this, though.

With some searching around, I found this place in Oklahoma: skullcleaning.com

They mainly deal with hunting trophies but their price list covers almost every vertebrate animal you could think of: skullcleaning.com/…/skull-cleaning-pricelist/

“Human” is conspicuously absent, of course, but then you go to the “Skeletal Articulation” page and the first photo is of a fucking Centaur lmfao: skullcleaning.com/…/skeleton-articulation/

I feel like if you called up and asked, you at leastwouldn’t get a hard “no”. I’d bet good money that they’ve done work on human cadavers before.

JusticeForPorygon ,
@JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world avatar

Apparently there’s no federal law (in the US) banning the ownership of human bones because up until the mid to late 20th century it was apparently common practice for med students to purchase real human bones for their studies. Most of them apparently came from India, until the country banned the export of human remains, which must have played a part in causing the practice to fall out of style.

If anyone has anything to correct/add, please do so. This was just a quick google search out of morbid curiosity

Iheartcheese ,
@Iheartcheese@lemmy.world avatar

I know the POTC ride had a bunch of real skulls (and a few are still there) because, at the time, they were cheaper and easier to get then good looking fakes.

Bumblefumble ,

It’s actually the exact opposite to what he says. In the US you can do almost anything you want with human remains, while in Europe it’s much more restricted. In Denmark for example, you have to have the body/ashes buried in a licensed cemetery. You can’t keep the ashes yourself, you can’t bury them in your backyard, you can’t spread them at some random special place (except for the sea in rare circumstances).

TheOctonaut ,

Also… what awesome displays? Does he think knight armour in museums has bones inside it?

NuWuX ,
@NuWuX@sh.itjust.works avatar

Well yes of course, how else are they going to get the armor to stand up? /s

superkret ,

There are minimum wage employees inside, working in shifts.
They moonlight as living statues in the city center.

MadBob ,

Talk about pigeonholed.

Obi ,
@Obi@sopuli.xyz avatar

Only thing coming to mind is the catacombs in Paris and stuff like that.

VirtualOdour ,

Ever seen a church made out of bones in America?

GetOffMyLan ,

There are quite a few places in Europe decorated with bones and even on display corpses.

For instance: slate.com/…/the_catacombs_of_capuchin_monastery_i…

bstix ,

The reason for restrictions in Denmark is to protect our clean ground water. If people could just place dead corpses or ashes everywhere, the drinking water would be polluted with heavy metals and other chemicals.

spacecadet ,

they can keep the meat

I just want the skeleton

Peak autismo mode

VelvetStorm ,

Look and see if your state has at home Burial services. If they do tell them you want to bury the body at home and you do not want it embalmed. Then buy an absolute fuck ton of Dermestid beetles online. Then, get ready for the horrid smell as they eat the flesh off of your father’s rotting corpse over the course of a year or more.

BowtiesAreCool ,

Imagine a neighbor who’s annoying dog barks in their yard sometimes.

Now imagine a neighbor who’s fathers’s rotting corpse is slowly being eaten by beetles over the course of a year or more.

burgersc12 ,

I’ll take the corpse

superkret ,

I guess I’m gonna have to talk to my apartment’s landlord first.

SaharaMaleikuhm ,

It’s better to ask for forgiveness than for permission.

jimmydoreisalefty ,
@jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.world avatar

You Can’t Keep Your Parents’ Skulls [Caitlin Doughty | September 4, 2019 | theatlantic.com]

Under U.S. law, it’s nearly impossible to get permission to decapitate and de-flesh a relative’s remains.

Abuse-of-corpse laws exist for a reason. They protect people’s bodies from being mistreated (ahem, necrophilia). They also prevent a corpse from being snatched from the morgue and used for research or public exhibition without the dead person’s consent. History is littered with such violations. Medical professionals have stolen corpses and even dug up fresh graves to get bodies for dissection and research. Then there are cases like that of Julia Pastrana, a 19th-century Mexican woman with a condition called hypertrichosis, which caused hair to grow all over her face and body. After she died, her husband saw that there was money to be made by displaying Pastrana in freak shows, so he took her embalmed and taxidermied corpse on world tour. Pastrana had ceased to be regarded as human; her corpse had become a possession.

So where do skulls on bookcases come from? In the United States, no federal law prevents owning, buying, or selling human remains, unless the remains are Native American. Otherwise, whether you’re able to sell or own human remains is decided by each individual state. At least 38 states have laws that should prevent the sale of human remains, but in reality the laws are vague, confusing, and enforced at random. In one seven-month period in 2012–13, 454 human skulls were listed on eBay, with an average opening bid of just under $650 (eBay subsequently banned the practice).

If there were any legal wiggle room that might allow a person to get Dad’s head liberated from its fleshy shell, Tanya Marsh would know how to find it. Marsh is a law professor and the expert on human-remains law. “I will argue with you all day long,” she told me, “that it isn’t legal in any state in the United States to reduce a human head to a skull.”^[[1] archive.ph/SE19g]

Hubi ,
@Hubi@feddit.org avatar

Literally 1984

VelvetStorm ,

I love her, it’s a dam shame youtube fucked her channel.

Etterra ,

I want my funeral to be a roast (comedic) but my fiancee said no :\

moody ,

a roast
Oh!

(comedic)
Oh.

TheBat ,
@TheBat@lemmy.world avatar

What were you planning to do with that fork and knife moody?

NaibofTabr ,

So your fiancée has already planned your funeral…

Mammothmothman ,

Nope. Chuck Testa!

Daikusa ,

Old ass meme but it checks out

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