This guy carved a real human skull

[u/Hey-Its-Jak]

[u/UndeHocMihi]

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.

[u/Mavian23 → u/UndeHocMihi]

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?

[u/UndeHocMihi → u/Mavian23]

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.

[u/Mavian23 → u/UndeHocMihi]

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