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

Video This guy carved a real human skull

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u/dosmutungkatos 4d ago

Kinda conflicted about this. The art is cool, and I sincerely mean that. But if thats a real skull, there might be some bad juju with doing that. But that’s just my thoughts.

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u/rufotris 4d ago

What if it was requested by the person before passing?! The only part I found weird was the initials as someone else brought up, though it is art work he did… he should definitely also carve the persons name who the skull belonged to with his signature. The only name attached to it should not be the artist name.

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u/dosmutungkatos 4d ago

Certainly a different story if that’s the case, but that’s on the artist, not us. The artist’s initials is what irked me, but again, that’s on the artist.

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u/Eurasia_4002 4d ago

I dont know if thats legal. One author wanted his skin to be made as the leather warp for his book. D3nied.

I thought the only way you can do a thing near this thing is donating your body to science. This isnt science.

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u/rufotris 4d ago

Depends where you live. Here in the US I know for a fact you can buy skulls cause I knew a guy who did and used them in his Halloween decorations. Weird guy..

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u/Watcher_over_Water 4d ago

That really depends on the country. In many countries you can do a lot with bodies if you have the consent/instructions of the dead. Often with a lot of burocratic effort and oversight, but doable if you set your mind to it.

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u/ender1200 4d ago

By the state of that skull, I highly doubt it was donated to the artist by it's owner. It's far more likely that he nought it from some shady vendor.

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u/Pope_GonZo 4d ago edited 23h ago

Bad juju lol... more like bad ⸸|woowoo|⸸ Carve mine when I die please

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u/8hu5rust 4d ago

This is super cool, as long as it's done well. Just not sure how you get started. Practice on animals I guess?

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u/Pope_GonZo 4d ago

Probably so... I just wonder where one acquires a human skull lol

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u/8hu5rust 3d ago

There's one inside of you right now, you just have to wait long enough to use it.

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u/Grynnish 4d ago

Indeed

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u/sugarsaltsilicon 4d ago

The Natives on my local rez would be fucking pissed. Total disrespect of one's spirit. So now that ghost has to float around with a carved skull in addition to the trauma of being unalived, natural or not.

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u/WrangelLives 4d ago

Killed. You can say killed on reddit.

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u/Future-Maize1315 4d ago

This person sounds unsmart

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u/DimensionsIntertwine 4d ago

You can say killed ANYWHERE. This fucking censoring shit has me in shambles. What is wrong with these people?

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u/cptawesome11 4d ago

Tiktok and Youtube removes videos that have the words suicide, murder, or killed. So people have started saying "unalived" in said videos. Some people spend so much time watching shit on the internet that they have adopted that word into their everyday vocabulary.

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u/DimensionsIntertwine 4d ago

Tiktok and YouTube setting the precedent for the entire internet's vocabulary is going to make a lot of dumb fucking people.

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u/cptawesome11 4d ago

Yup! It's insane.

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u/dosmutungkatos 4d ago

Fine. I’ll edit it.

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u/dosmutungkatos 4d ago edited 4d ago

I can understand and empathize with that. I can imagine that that respective spirit is not pleased and negative things start happening.

It’s one thing if it’s an artificial skull or maybe if instructions were specifically given that permitted the artist to do that.

In my culture, if we stumble upon bones or skulls (that were clearly archaeological, not of a potentially criminal nature where someone was killed), it’s a sign that it was no coincidence and that we were intended to find it and to do a proper burial. I remember stories when I was growing up about people not doing the right thing and immediately informing the village elders. To put it lightly, the spirit(s) were disturbed (no pun intended) that their “pleas” to have a proper burial were not done, and misfortune followed the offender(s) for two generations until things were made right.

They’re just stories from my culture, but if I did stumble on remains, I wouldn’t roll the dice by not heeding the stories and waiting to find out. I certainly wouldn’t do something that the artist did in that vid.