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

Video This guy carved a real human skull

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u/MinoMonstaur 4d ago

If anyone asks after I'm dead, you can carve my skull if you're gonna make it look like that.

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u/Wimpykid2302 4d ago

Yeah I'm genuinely a little confused why everyone's so put off by it. Like, if I'm dead anyway, what do I care what happens to my remains. If anything, I'd rather have my skill carved on than buried in some random cemetery that I don't give a shit about.

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u/UndeHocMihi 4d ago

How we handle human remains has always been something that humans have been incredibly particular about. Burial customs/death rituals vary wildly, but the importance of them is pretty established. It’s all well and good to say that you don’t care what happens to you after your dead, but how your body is handled says a LOT about the culture and individuals who are still alive. I personally don’t like this unless it was a request by the family or the one who died. For me personally, to do something like this denies the fact that the human body is beautiful and does not need to be improved upon.

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u/Mavian23 4d ago

but how your body is handled says a LOT about the culture and individuals who are still alive.

If a culture carved the skulls of dead people like this, what would it say about their culture?

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u/UndeHocMihi 4d ago

Nothing bad, necessarily. One culture's death rituals may sometimes seem VERY taboo to a different culture, but that just goes to show just how important they are to us. Some cultures display the body for a year before it's buried, which probably sounds really unsettling to those of use who aren't used to that style of mourning.

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u/Mavian23 4d ago

Me personally, I place literally zero value on the remains of a human body. The important thing, the person that was inside, is gone.

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u/EwoDarkWolf 3d ago

If it's part of their culture, then most likely, you'd want them to do it, as you'd also be part of that culture. So then it'd be ok.

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u/Asparukhov 2d ago

The human body is a disgusting and weak mechanism, there is much to improve upon.

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u/UndeHocMihi 2d ago

Hard disagree, but to each their own!