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.
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
- unethical death pro tips
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
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.
“On a good day?”
Nope. Chuck Testa!
Old ass meme but it checks out
they can keep the meat
I just want the skeleton
Peak autismo mode
I want my funeral to be a roast (comedic) but my fiancee said no :\
a roast
Oh!(comedic)
Oh.What were you planning to do with that fork and knife moody?
So your fiancée has already planned your funeral…
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
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.
Human remains will only be accepted from bona-fide educational facilities. Contact us for more details.
Likely an explicit no. :(
It’s easy enough to spin up a fake school, Trump did it.
I love the suspicious amount of research you put into this
What can I say, it nerd-sniped me.
You gotta tell them you want it for science, then you gotta submit some forms.
…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.
So what you’re saying is that Anon just asked the wrong person.
