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
Well he should have considered that before dying. Its about personal responsibility.
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.
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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I guess I’m gonna have to talk to my apartment’s landlord first.
It’s better to ask for forgiveness than for permission.
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.
If you bury the body first it should take away a good chunk of the smell but you have to bury it in like a mesh cage almost so the bones and stuff can’t be slowly moved over time by the beetles.
I’ll take the corpse
When I read this, I was curious how possible it would be, if there’s sufficient supply in the market… I found this vendor page. So, there would probably be enough supply as there are taxidermists who need to clean big game skulls, which require thousands of larva and adults, and the vendor say you should email them if you need more than 10’000. I couldn’t learn how much time it would take, but they do say that more = faster, and to communicate with them to fit your project timeline.
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?
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.Talk about pigeonholed.
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
Ever seen a church made out of bones in America?
Only thing coming to mind is the catacombs in Paris and stuff like that.
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.
In Denmark heavy metal is for your ears only!
So like your drinking water isn’t cleaned or filtered? It’s simply just the groundwater in Denmark? I can’t imagine creamed remains actually being a problem with a water supply, seems extreme.
creamed remains
Now I want to see your recipe book.
Oh ho ho no, this are creamed dad, old family recipe!
It’s filtered, but that’s it.
Drillings aren’t allowed near graveyards or other polluted properties.
That’s the same as in the US.
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. :(
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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
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 remember that body being found but I didn’t hear they figured it out
there was definitely room somewhere along the line for numerous parties to never discover it, but at some point somebody inevitably would’ve discovered it, preserved bodies aren’t exactly the most “durable” of things.
It’s only 1 still inside the ride. I can’t remember if it was always only one but it’s the skull on the crossbones above the throne towards the end of the ride.
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.
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.
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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.
It’s not for them, it’s for my skeleton.
Would be more ethical to buy a full body autopsy CT scan its’s only a fewthousands dollars) to get a 3D model, then 3D print a replica of his skeleton out of something not biodegradable.
how is that more ethical if they want that?
Not dessicrating the corpse, since CT xray is nondestructive.
…how would a coroner go about removing a skeleton without destroying the body? I’m pretty sure this is nowhere in a coroner job description. I’d tell him the same thing.
You just need a straw and some patience.
Nope. Chuck Testa!
Old ass meme but it checks out
im gonna force (post mortem) whatever morgue that has to deal with my body upon death to rip all my teeth out so i can send them to my friends.
I’ve got worse ideas. Apparently there’s a company or was, idk if it’s still around that would preserve tats from the skin of the now longer alive individual. I’m really tempted to get a tattoo of a dashed grid on my back, with numbered squares (2x2inches per square for example) just so i can tell people that when i die it’s going to be removed, segmented, preserved, and then sent to people that knew me.
i would describe it is realist more than anything. People subscribe to things that are meaningless more often than not.
ah yes a classic
This podcast goes into some good detail about how and why it’s illegal in the context of the guy being an investigative journalist ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JP76ekb_DxI )
Going to have to update my will
My little brother likes to say he’s going to have us all taxidermied and put on roller skates so we’ll be with him forever.
Shove my corpse on a random desert hillside and study its decomposition … hyper-specific because there’s actually a study like so, but yeah, anything that isn’t claimed by patients/doctors who need it, I want set out for sky “burial”.
Now I think about it, I think I read that study wants entire corpses. Now I’m sad.
I think this is one of those societal level conspiracies
I like by taking life, in death I want to give life. It’s legal, it’s ethical. Unless I die from a bacterial disease or nasty virus, I find it ghoulish and cruel to be cremated or pumped full of preservatives - let me return to the earth. Feed me to birds, bury me under a tree, i don’t care - I just want to feed life as I fed upon it
It’s legal, it’s ethical, and if I died tomorrow I’m sure my frequently expressed wishes would be ignored
You’re “homeschooling” !
