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.
Didn’t we have a community for unethical life pro tips? This comment would be a perfect post there.
I don’t see what is unethical about it.
It’s probably not what his father wanted
We don’t know that, and imo that hardly matters now as they are dead and never coming back. They no longer have wants, needs, or feelings.
Well he should have considered that before dying. Its about personal responsibility.
put it in the will or enlist it to a trusted family member, those are the two options you have to deal with this problem.
will is a limited immortal version of the dead person, you can only ask them questions about their death
“put it in the will” is because back in the 70s the will could only read paper slips
will is a shortened form of william, the first man to never die (in 1683)to clarify, that’s not their birth date
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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
It’s true. My aunt had the skeleton of a person, probably from India, for use when she was in medical school in the '80s. She took him on the bus with her in a bigass suitcase I guess. They talked about it as if it wasn’t fucked up.
The reason India stopped that is because they realized they were exporting way too many human skeletons and way too many child skeletons in that, so they eventually realized that this meant there were mass murders involved. India to this day has problems with that but it’s become better.
Here’s an interview of a guy who went underground to familiarize himself with the problem and even talked to a bunch of people involved. It’s a great video :)
My highschool biology classroom had the skeleton of an indian tween in a closet. It had been professionally skeletonized and rigged up and everything. The bio teacher swore it was there when he started teaching and that he doesnt know anything about it…
He also had a human fetus preserved in a jar of formaldehyde.
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.
there was apparently one amusement park ride that ended up getting its hands on a literal corpse of a human, only to be discovered when one of the arms broke off while someone was moving it.
apparently, the corpse in particular, was that of a notorious criminal who nobody really liked, so some fuckwit decided it would be funny to preserve his body and put it up for exhibition. And then it just kinda, continued from there, until it was discovered.
I am pretty sure it is becoming legal to get composted some places. Then you wait and disinter the giant bastard, free yard skeleton
they can keep the meat
I just want the skeleton
Peak autismo mode
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).
Also… what awesome displays? Does he think knight armour in museums has bones inside it?
There are quite a few places in Europe decorated with bones and even on display corpses.
For instance: https://www.slate.com/blogs/atlas_obscura/2014/10/01/the_catacombs_of_capuchin_monastery_in_palermo_sicily.html
Well yes of course, how else are they going to get the armor to stand up? /s
There are minimum wage employees inside, working in shifts.
They moonlight as living statues in the city center.
What if I put it in my will that I want my skeleton turned into a kick ass statue in a WH40K style marine suit?
What would be the point? Space marine armor is fully enclosed, nobody would see the skeleton anyway.
Akshully, a significant portion of them prefers to fight without a helmet where possible, for various reasons such as chapter culture or certain gene seed variants. The primarchs are also often depicted without helmets, but considering the lore is essentially imperial propaganda it might make sense to depict them that way for PR reasons.
Wearing insanely heavy armor only to leave the helmet off seems like the kind of thing so obviously stupid it should be kept out of propaganda material at all costs.
It’s not for them, it’s for my skeleton.
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?
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.
There’s gotta be a service that does this, though.
With some searching around, I found this place in Oklahoma: https://skullcleaning.com/
They mainly deal with hunting trophies but their price list covers almost every vertebrate animal you could think of: https://skullcleaning.com/services/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: https://skullcleaning.com/services/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.
I love the suspicious amount of research you put into this
What can I say, it nerd-sniped me.
Human remains will only be accepted from bona-fide educational facilities. Contact us for more details.
Likely an explicit no. :(
