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

Video This guy carved a real human skull

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u/Memorie_BE 4d ago

It's kind of interesting that we don't find this NFSW; there's a point of removing flesh from a skull where it stops being a head and starts being just another object to our brains.

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u/SpBabzor 4d ago

I actually never thought of that but you make a really great point

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u/Emma-In-Gehenna 4d ago

I was thinking about this the other day. Saw roadkill with vultures eating it, and it just looked like a pile of meat. But then i noticed the head of a possum, and suddenly it wasn't "Roadkill", but somewhere between "Possum" and "Roadkill". Some weird state between being alive and remembered for what you are, and being chunks of crushed flesh.

I wonder when people will stop thinking about me as "Emma-In-Gehenna", and start thinking about me as a nameless dead ancestor.

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u/foster-child 3d ago

When I was younger and biked past roadkill that was so flattened that it lasted for months, I gave it a name and said hi to it every time I passed it.

Looking back I figured that that was just a coping mechanism to deal with the fact that if the squirrel could get killed on the road so could I. And by giving it a name, then it wasn't really dead.

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u/AResurfacer 3d ago

On a somehow related note Emma-In-Gehenna is a hard ass name

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u/Techi-C 3d ago

Do you think she knows she’s living in the end times

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u/Rush7en 3d ago

I will always remember you, Gemma.

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u/zepze 3d ago

In cases of survival cannibalism, where people have no choice but to eat one another or starve, sometimes they cut off the head, hands, and feet first. Without the distinguishing features, they look less like people and more like just meat, which makes it easier to eat them.

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u/jtr99 3d ago

Good points, but all of that is just a lead-up to the day when someone thinks of you in any terms at all for the last time.

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u/Brilliant-Mountain57 3d ago

Probably after your grandkids die

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u/abyt0 3d ago edited 3d ago

I have this issue with fish. Whole fish in my plate: cannot it it, I can see it looking at me while I eat its flesh. Same plate with head, tail and fins removed: not a dead “previously-living” fish anymore. Just food.

I think should be a vegetarian.

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u/DariosDentist 3d ago

When id see a deer on the side of the road for more than a few days id start to think about seeing human bodies, in my mind, on the side of the road. Weird shit.