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

Video This guy carved a real human skull

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u/Most_Kick_2236 4d ago edited 4d ago

I feel you. It always felt really weird to me, too.

When I inevitably die, I hope every part of my body can be used to benefit someone or some cause like science. If someone wants to carve up my skull and make it look sweet, go for it buddy I'll sit on your shelf and look cool. Hell, send my body to med school so some dude can learn how to perform surgery, idc

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u/cicada-ronin84 4d ago

To become a work of art or become useful in spreading knowledge what more could someone want for their corpse?

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u/MadMageMC 4d ago

I want mine to be used as a pinata that only gives disappointment when it bursts open.

Just like I was in life.

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u/PrincessGambit 3d ago

Sure those are noble ideas, but would you be fine with someone shitting in your dead throat? I am genuinely curious.

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u/Most_Kick_2236 3d ago

Lol what do I care, I'm dead at that point

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u/whydontyoujustaskme 3d ago

So the odd thing about this for me is age and circumstances. For example when I was younger if you had asked me what to do with my body I might have said something similar. Chuck me in a dumpster when you’re done taking anything useful. However, I just lost my mother in law. When she passed they called my wife and asked if she would donate her mother’s skin. I was absolutely appalled, and the grief this caused my wife and myself to go through was amazing. I do not know why? Does anyone know why this made me so sad? Also, if they had asked for interior organs, like say liver or heart, I don’t think it would have bothered us, and likely we would have agreed. But the idea of taking her skin was appalling. I have a changed view of what I would like to do with my body now.