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This company sells real human skulls. It claims all of its skulls are ethically sourced. How do you ethically source a human skull for sale to a random buyer? (www.skullsunlimited.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 months ago (1 children)

John Oliver had an episode where the main story answers your question.

Basically, if you donate your body "to science" there's a chance it could end up with such a company. I wouldn't call it ethical, but as of now it's legal.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Well that's fucked. If I donate my body to science, it certianly isnt so my skull can sit in some dudes living room

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I'd be totally okay with that, as long as he attempted necromancy

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

There's this woman who donated her body to science when she died ended up in the army being blown by IEDs.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You say that like it's a bad thing?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well yeah, I figure when she signed her body up for science she was thinking about Medical Science and not Explosive Device Science...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I believe the science company sold her body to the military.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago