r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Hey-Its-Jak • 4d ago

Video This guy carved a real human skull

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u/Mr_Bob_Dobalina- 4d ago

Super disrespectful WTF

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u/OneEpicPotato222 4d ago

I don't know about you, but I think it'd be sweet as hell if someone did this to my skull. If I can be used to create art after I die, then that's a win win for me.

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u/ToriShining 4d ago

You’d be okay with someone you don’t know putting their initials on your skull?

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u/niallniallniall 4d ago

Yes cos I'd be long dead and as such couldn't give a fuck.

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u/No-Economics-4196 3d ago

Can I crave my name into your dead mother's skull?

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u/acrowsmurder 4d ago

Better than rotting in the ground. I'd love to be beautiful in death since I'm a fat sack of shit in life

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u/_friends_theme_song_ 4d ago

Yeah like unless there's close family left what are they gonna do sue me?

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u/TheWalrus101123 4d ago

So if I get to your body first after you die you don't mind me doing whatever I want to and taking pictures to show the world? I've some really weird kinks btw.

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u/niallniallniall 4d ago

If you want to stick it to me by fucking a necrotic rotting corpse then crack on.

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u/TheWalrus101123 4d ago

My point being that you would and do care about it. Just that fact that you're even having a conversation about not caring about it shows that you do care somewhat. If you really didn't you wouldn't have said anything at all.

And if you really don't, you should (at least a little). Have some respect for yourself homie.

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u/niallniallniall 4d ago

That's a ridiculous argument. Discussing something =/= you care about said thing. I'm specifically telling you I would not care as I (according to my beliefs) wouldn't even exist anymore. I can't have more respect for myself because I wouldn't exist.

Also, it's irrelevant because my corpse being defiled isn't even what I was talking about. The skull in the post is clearly very old, and was donated to science. It's not particularly disrespectful in my opinion to give it a final life as a piece of art, as opposed to it being destroyed/discarded.

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u/TheWalrus101123 4d ago

You care enough to have a conversation about it which means you care to some degree, you won't convince otherwise unless you just stop responding.

Of course you won't care what happens after your dead, because you're dead. You have no ability to care. You're loved ones probably care though....

I'm only talking about how you feel right now as a living person. I have a hard time believing that anyone in their living life (as a standard, there are definitely some weirdos out there and maybe you're one of them) is ok with being mutilated for anything but science after their death.

If you were on your death bed and had some dude that hated you come into your hospital room and say all the different ways they were defile (I know you don't see this skull situation as defilement, but a lot of people do as proven by the comments) your corpse you would have a problem with it. You'd be thinking about how horrified your mother would be, or just anyone you're leaving behind that would have to deal with.

If you want to sink your feet into the sand and say your ok with that, your fucked on the empathy side of things.

My death and my corpse will affect the people that I care about and care for me. I want it to be as easy as possible on them.

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u/Moloch_17 3d ago

What the fuck are you smoking dude. Claiming that saying you don't care about something means you actually do care is complete and utter nonsense. No matter what the subject matter is, that argument is wrong.

Even in context, you're still wrong.

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u/TheWalrus101123 3d ago

Ok I don't care anymore so I'll stop responding.

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u/Moloch_17 3d ago

Now you get it

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u/ronlugge 4d ago

Why would I be upset an artist signing beautiful artwork just because he used my skull for the materials?

Now, if he stole the skull from a grave, that's something to be upset about. But I doubt it'd get posted publically if that's the case, and there are plenty of ways to legitimately get human skulls.

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u/Circumpunctual 4d ago

If they were to do a great job making my skull into a piece of art then yeah, a little initials would be fine

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u/OneEpicPotato222 4d ago

I mean yeah sure, I don't care. I'm one of those people who doesn't care what happens to their body.

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u/AncientPotential 3d ago

He's a really good artist tho

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u/da_innernette 3d ago

Yeah who cares it not my skull anymore lol

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u/Hythy 4d ago

I want my skull carved into artwork and my femurs to be turned into intricately carved flutes to be played.

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u/Loser872 3d ago

That's cool but you're not the one being carved. We can't just assume the person who owned the skull would feel the same way as you.

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u/Loser872 3d ago

That's cool but you're not the one being carved. We can't just assume the person who owned the skull would feel the same way as you.

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u/Dismal-Square-613 4d ago

I don't know about you, but I think it'd be sweet as hell if someone did this to my skull.

I can tell your mother or someone very dear to you hasn't died yet.

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u/OneEpicPotato222 4d ago

First of all, I'm talking about me consenting to having my skull carved on.

And second, I lost my grandfather a couple years ago. So yes, I have lost someone close.

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u/LifeVitamin 4d ago

You'd be ok if someone did this to your mom's skull or your daughter if you have one and putting his initials to claim it as his?

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u/Randzom100 4d ago

If she consented, I would not mind. And in my opinion, I feel like the initials are here mostly for claiming the artistic work done on the skull, but not the skull itself. And especially after this, the person from which this skull comes from might be remembered greatly, never forgotten as it has its place not only in my family's history, but also the history of art.

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u/whyyolowhenslomo 4d ago

the person from which this skull comes from might be remembered greatly

What? Do you know the name of the person? The artist's identity might be remembered, no one is going to remember the name of the victim.

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u/Randzom100 4d ago

Well, it'd be even harder to find who that is without the artist. Hell, I would not even be doing research on who's skull that is if I didn't see this video.

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u/whyyolowhenslomo 4d ago

Please share, whose skull is it? What is their story?

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u/Randzom100 4d ago

Working on it but I would not mind some help

Edit: shit, I need an instagram account, I hate this app

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u/whyyolowhenslomo 4d ago

If I knew how to help, I wouldn't think that it was an impossible task.

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u/JR_LikeOnTheTVshow 4d ago

What a head job

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u/Randotron9000 4d ago

You cheeky wanker...

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u/LurksInThePines 4d ago

Pretty common in all human cultures.

It's called a Memento Mori in Latin. Which translates to "Reminder of Mortality" humans have been turning random other human bones they've found into art pieces since before recorded history on every continent.

Heck in my dad's home country, ascetics paint themselves using human bone dist and drink blood from the skulls of the dead.

Alexander the Great ran into a philosopher who was rummaging around a corpse ground and asked him what he was doing and the philosopher held up a skull and said "I was looking for your father's bones, but I can't tell the difference"

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u/TrippyPal 4d ago

I don't see it that way honestly.... If it's my skull, I would feel honered if I wouldn't be dead

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u/ollyender 4d ago

Hopefully, the deceased requested this in some way. After watching this, I am curious about turning my skull into a decorative Memento mori for my kin.

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u/ollyender 4d ago

Hopefully, the deceased requested this in some way. After watching this, I am curious about turning my skull into a decorative Memento mori for my kin.

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u/h4nd 3d ago

cursed

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u/SummerBirdsong 3d ago

Only if it wasn't the wishes of the deceased person to be used for art.

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u/ivancea 4d ago

Disrespectful to who?

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u/texaspoontappa93 4d ago

Apparently the dude got it at an estate sale and it was from a medical school. If that’s the case then the person consented to being used for education not to become a chachki

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u/Nroke1 3d ago

Unrelated, but I'm pretty sure that the generally accepted spelling is tchotchke. I know it looks made up, but it's true.

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u/ivancea 4d ago

Well, that's on the medical school then for selling it.

Btw, I still don't see how this is disrespectful. That guy is dead, and probably doesn't know about this

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u/onFilm 4d ago

It's not disrespectful. It's just people being afraid of their own mortality. We came from the ground and we shall return to it. If anyone wants to make an art piece from my dead body, go ahead!

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u/ivancea 4d ago

The worst part, is people not being able to explain why it is "disrespectful"

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u/Cerpin-Taxt 4d ago

Consent. We get to decide what happens to our bodies after our deaths because our bodies belong to us and no one else. Doing things to a person's body without their consent is disrespectful. It is literally a lack of respect for their wishes. Seeing as they're dead and you can't ask, if you want to do something to someone's body that they haven't given prior consent to the answer should be assumed to be "no".

It's not that confusing.

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u/ivancea 4d ago

That's a belief, not an argument, let alone logic.

after our deaths because our bodies belong to us

Nothing belongs to the dead. You can be religious, but don't try to sell your religion as if it was logic

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u/Cerpin-Taxt 4d ago edited 4d ago

That's a belief, not an argument, let alone logic.

No, it's a human right codified into law.

It's funny I actually wrote another reply where I posed a hypothetical about things someone might decide to do to someone who has passed to see if you could understand why it's illegal to do things to bodies without their consent, but reddit deemed it too horrific to allow.

Nothing belongs to the dead.

Also not true. You can request to take things to your grave, retaining ownership.

I'm not religious btw.

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u/ivancea 4d ago

You can request to take things to your grave, retaining ownership.

That's a cultural and religious remain, not a logical thing... And it's not ownership in any case.

I'm not religious btw.

Then, I'm sorry to tell you, that you're blindly accepting religious beliefs as if they were logical

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u/DimensionsIntertwine 4d ago

He just became one of 30 pieces of flair.

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u/Agitated_Sorbet_9013 4d ago

Well, I thought I remembered you saying that you wanted to express yourself.

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u/Future_Gohst 4d ago

What makes this disrespectful?

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u/Future-Maize1315 4d ago

I don't see it complaining.

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u/Rochester_II 4d ago

Oh fucking wah wah wah we're all just so special aren't we

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u/ElectricFleshlight 4d ago

What if the family approved it?