No, I don’t want to buy one. This came out of a discussion about my brother, who is so much weirder than me if you can believe it, who owns a real human skull.

I don’t know how he got it. I don’t know where he got it from, maybe this company, more importantly, I don’t know why he would want such a thing. He is not a scientist, he works in IT. He did get an MFA in theater, wanted to be a professional theater director and loves Shakespeare, I can’t believe the reason was because he wanted Hamlet to be super authentic.

We’re not all that close, so it really hasn’t come up in conversation. I only know about it because he posted elsewhere a while back that he was on a Zoom meeting at work and he showed it off and couldn’t understand why everyone stopped laughing and got silent. So obviously he thinks it’s cool to own it.

It used to be a person. I’m an atheist and I don’t believe in an afterlife, but that’s just basic disrespect.

Anyway… how can you ethically source a skull and then sell it on the open market?

  • Flying SquidOP
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    15 days ago

    I didn’t say there was a problem with him owning a skull. Other than how he’s weird about it, I mean.

    I was talking about this company. I don’t even know how he got it. For all I know, someone who died willed it to him.

    • @MigratingtoLemmy
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      315 days ago

      I don’t see how he is being weird about it. OK I wouldn’t show it to a zoom meeting full of random people, sure, but nothing else screams weird to me.

      Then again, I work in IT have been described as weird by some people so I suppose I’m not looking at it like usual people would

      • Flying SquidOP
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        115 days ago

        That’s probably because you don’t know my brother.

          • Flying SquidOP
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            115 days ago

            I think it is very unlikely that you know him. And certainly not as well as I do since, you know, I grew up with him.

            • @MigratingtoLemmy
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              315 days ago

              I agree. I don’t know him. I meant that I don’t find him as weird as you do probably because I don’t know him as well