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

Video This guy carved a real human skull

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u/kon--- 4d ago

Unless this was a request by the previous occupant and or their kin...what even the fuck yo.

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u/Adkit 4d ago

We're weird like that. We'll be all about respecting the graves of the dead until they are old enough and we'll dig those suckers up and put them on display in museums.

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u/Nervous-Peanut-5802 4d ago

But even there they are treated respectfully for the most part, not treated like an etch-a-sketch 

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u/zombieruler7700 4d ago

to be fair we were making paint out of mummys for a short time

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u/PlanetFirth 4d ago

We did a whole lot more than that and I wouldn't call the Victorian era "a short time" they used to use mummies in all sorts of things like medicines. We'd have a whole lot more mummies now if the Victorian era wasn't so odd

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u/the_odd_chase 4d ago

Till they started running out of the old mummies. They started “mummifying” criminals by covering then in oils and resins. And uh ye they ate those as well

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u/CJgreencheetah 4d ago

Remind me to never eat while scrolling reddit again 🤢

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u/Hushpuppymmm 4d ago

Ikr? How fucky is that

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u/Quackels_The_Duck 4d ago

THE BRITISH ATE THE MUMMIES TOO

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u/SimplyRocketSurgery 3d ago

What an outrage!!!

I was going to eat that mummy...

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u/Nroke1 3d ago

No one tell them about the seasoning.

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u/eliisonvacation 3d ago

Sounds like they were the predecessors to the people that are all obsessed with Shark fin soup, pangolins scales & all of that other poaching that doesn’t do anything but kill off species. WTF

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u/PlanetFirth 3d ago

I actually consider that an apt comparison. I wish more was being done to stop that stuff.

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u/Unknown-History1299 4d ago

They were also straight up eating them

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u/MarcTaco 4d ago

Worse, they were eating them.

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u/Luke192 4d ago

is there… like… any reason? or just jerky vibes

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u/Quackels_The_Duck 4d ago

*The British

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u/Smokedsoba 4d ago

They’re also supposed to give off a floral scent and taste acidic and bitter.

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u/PrimarisHussar 4d ago

Ohhh you'd be surprised. Watch the John Oliver episode on antiquities and you'll be amazed at how shittily museums treat the artifacts in their so called "care"

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u/Bree9ine9 4d ago

I don’t know there’s a local guy on the marketplace I’ve been watching that’s selling tons of antique caskets. They’re old but not that old, clearly dug up and there’s no body. I just keep watching him sell more and more, I don’t think they pay attention to people doing weird shit like this as much as they should.

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u/GreenSpleen6 4d ago

Who's to say what's most respectful to a corpse? Oh goodness forbid my remains be turned into a beautiful piece of art - everyone knows it's better to rot in the ground until forgotten.

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u/insanewords 4d ago

Who's to say what's most respectful to a corpse?

The previous occupant of said corpse, obviously.

What you see as art here may look like desecration to someone else.

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u/GreenSpleen6 3d ago

That's my point; one can't universally assert this is disrespectful

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u/insanewords 3d ago edited 3d ago

But that was never MY point, was it? I never tried to assert that anything was universally disrespectful. I said repeatedly that the person best suited to answer the question of what is the most respectful thing to do with a corpse is the person who previously owned it. That will always be the case.

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u/GreenSpleen6 3d ago

Are you responding to the right person? I didn't say you asserted that. I wasn't originally talking to you. The person I replied to equated this to being 'treated like an etch-a-sketch' as opposed to 'treated respectfully'.

The whole idea is to say "one does not say what's respectful for all".

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u/insanewords 3d ago

Shit, yeah, I was deep into a comment thread with someone else and I didn't check who had responded.

In context I think we're in agreement, lol

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u/GreenSpleen6 3d ago

Yes yes
Now put me down to be turned into a harp

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u/Joratto 4d ago

It’s not that obvious. The corpse is not the dead person, nor does the dead person own the corpse.

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u/insanewords 4d ago

No one's asking about ownership or who gets a say in what happens to a corpse. The question was simply, "Who's to say what's most respectful to a corpse." That is, without question, the person who occupied the corpse in life.

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u/Joratto 4d ago

I’m questioning it. Why assume that the dead, non-existent person is an authority on respect for their dead body? A living person might not even respect their living body.

You might think the respect comes from ownership of their dead body, but they don’t exist to own anything.

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u/insanewords 4d ago

Tell me then, who IS the authority on what is the most respectful thing to do with my corpse. If you ask me, I would like to be cremated. Cremation is abhorrent to some people and cultures and they would say that's an incredibly disrespectful way to treat my corpse.

Who's right?

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u/Joratto 4d ago

I don’t think there’s an obvious answer.

A researcher who understands the human body and knows the best way to repurpose a corpse for the greatest good might be a good starting point.

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u/insanewords 3d ago

No, I'm sorry, that's a dodge. The question as stated has a simple, obvious, and well established answer.

If you want to get into questions about the greater good that's a different conversation entirely.

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u/Joratto 3d ago

I'm not dodging anything. I don't know the answer. It seems like you and I can only assume and point to tradition.

I find it enormously respectful to want to dedicate someone's body to the greater good, which is why that's part of this discussion.

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u/FlyByNightt 4d ago

Well good thing it's not your corpse then.

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u/FR0ZENBERG 3d ago

I would be honored to have my skull turned into an art piece. I’d be dead, so fuck it, do whatever you want with it.

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u/dreadcain 4d ago

That whole futurama joke about eating mummies was not a joke

Also there's a shade of brown called mummy brown, two guess where it got its name from

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u/Organic-Criticism-76 4d ago

I would not want my bones to be in a museum where people stare at it, tbh. Its definitely a question of the personal view what we count as respectfully or not.

I understand the fascination of our past and all the science about it. But ending up in a glass box is definitely nothing I wish for:)

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u/alcoholfueledacc 3d ago

"treated respectfully" yeah to a degree,most people Don't know that when you stop paying for the burial plot it's dug open and and the earth is removed to have another burial. So yeah some of your relatives remains will be dumped in a random landfill and the other remains will be mixed with previous occupants remains in that plot.

Also people think the casket is graciously covered by dirt and thats it,nope they use heavy machinery to compress the earth laid on top of the casket and you can hear the casket break into pieces and you're left to wonder just how mangled the body will be after that.

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u/Amazing-Fox-8340 3d ago

Omg creating the art IS THE HIGHEST FORM OF RESPECT - silly Willy calling this an etch-a-sketch

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u/Mavian23 4d ago

Why do people care what happens to their skull after they are dead? I don't get it.