• @[email protected]
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    […] “stole dissected portions of donated cadavers, including, for example, heads, brains, skin, bones, and other human remains, without the knowledge or permission of HMS,” according to the indictment.

    Yeah that other human remains is dicks. Do noubt about it.

    • @Daft_ish
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      I rest easy knowing I’ll be dead. Of course, knowing my luck, I’ll be the first person they bring back Frankenstein style and someone will have stolen my penis.

      • @afraid_of_zombies
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        310 months ago

        Why stop there? What if you get brought back to life in some Black Mirror horror? You could end up stacking boxes in a warehouse continuously until you rebel and they reset you.

        You: no more! I won’t anymore

        Manager: shit you need a reset, hold on

        You: wait what?

        Manager: reset. You know factory settings. Every week or so I have to reset you to the moment you first turned on. There used to be an automatic one but the last iPhone update broke the app.

    • @hakobo
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      110 months ago

      John Oliver did a piece on this kind of stuff in the US. It’s an interesting watch. Both the “donate to science” and organ donation routes are important, however both are also flawed.

      https://youtu.be/Tn7egDQ9lPg

    • Flying Squid
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      This is not the same as organ donation. This is people who think they are donating their body to medical or other scientific research/education.

  • @jpreston2005
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    I studied in medical school, dissected a few human bodies.

    What I can tell you is this, there were other students that would mock the corpse. They would cut off sexual organs and play with them. There were students who respected the bodies, and the others that didn’t. But I’ll never forget the careless nature in which people would casually desecrate someones remains.

    • AItoothbrush
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      3410 months ago

      My sister goes to a medical school and they do a lot of studying with real bodies but they have extremely strict rules and its one of the places where if you do something wrong you could be expelled immediately.

    • @afraid_of_zombies
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      I plan for my body to be donated to my uni’s medical school.

      A. So I can help train the next generation of med students

      B. Due to anal leakage I get to shit on my uni one last time.

      C. I have an idea for a prank that will only work if I am dissected.

  • @[email protected]
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    3510 months ago

    A May 19, 2019, payment from Taylor had a memo, “head number 7,” and a Nov. 20, 2020, transaction was for “braiiiiiins.”

    • @HWK_290
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      510 months ago

      Zombie’s gotta eat

    • @inspxtr
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      310 months ago

      sounds like a missing episode of iZombie.

  • @Mr_Blott
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    2610 months ago

    Turning human skin into leather? They Brits have been doing that for decades in Spain

  • Bonehead
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    2310 months ago

    And now you know how Walter can get you a toe this afternoon. With nail polish.

  • @[email protected]
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    1810 months ago

    What do human brains and leather go for these days? And what are they used for anyway?

    • Machinist3359
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      I imagine it’s mostly upper middle class weirdos who have their own secret curiosity room of morbid shit so they can feel edgy. So, probably a lot of Harvard alumni.

      • cabbage
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        I think those guys should be referred to as lower upper, but other than that strong agree.

        • @thrawn
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          310 months ago

          Imo upper class should be limited to the ability to live the rest of your life without working ever again. Otherwise there’s no meaningful distinction between middle and upper class. Stuff is stuff, and more expensive stuff but no other significant separators isn’t enough to put regular Harvard alum in upper class. If they permanently lost the ability to work, they’d die too.

          Class should always be about means to live— middle class should be able to comfortably live and be able to survive bouts of unemployment. This is sadly not the case anymore (though I argue it is because the middle class is simply disappearing), but by letting the meaning erode, we allow the uppermost classes to acclimate society to lower standards. The middle class should be able to go some weeks without employment. The middle class should be equally comfortable as standard non-founder Ivy alum, cheaper stuff notwithstanding. There can be differences of luxuries and ability to move up, but anyone working full time should be comfortable, housed, and not fearful of a layoff or hospitalization.

          Then upper class should be those who could quit forever and continue to live. Ofc, in an ideal society, everyone should have means to live, not merely the middle and up. In America this is not the case though.

          • cabbage
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            I think it’s the meaning of the upper class which has been eroded by the super rich. If you have rich parents, went to an ivy league university at their expense, and own a collection of art or human remains, chances are you’re upper class in my book.

            I believe doctors should be considered upper class in a well functioning society. It shouldn’t be reserved only for undeserving billionaires - at that point both the middle and the upper class become deprived of meaning. I rather think the ultra rich should be treated as a separate category entirely (and one all three of the other classes should unite against).

    • @Death_Equity
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      Human leather could probably make a decent wallet, watch band, or purse but a belt or shoes would probably need a tougher hide backing it.

      What I think was done is there was a tattoo that they preserved. They were quoted as saying “chest piece” in reference to the tanner, so I think that it was a tattoo on the corpse’s chest.

  • 1ostA5tro6yne
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    i see a couple commenters in semi-relevant professions so i’d like to ask: when i die i don’t want to be pickled and buried, nor belched into the atmosphere as a plume of carbon. (i like the idea of my remains being placed on a body farm where they can go back to nature but i don’t really know where to start looking into a thing like that.) to whom and how can i donate my remains with assurance things like this won’t happen?

    • @[email protected]
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      310 months ago

      I can’t exactly answer your question, but I strongly encourage you to donate your organs. You can easily save 3 or more lives.

      My plan is to do that, and have my remains naturally buried. But natural burial grounds vary by state (if you are in the US). Some states allow natural burial on private property, with some caveats (acreage, ground water).

      It’s kinda complicated and requires you to look into your state/county laws and nearby natural burial grounds.

      I personally hate the idea of pumping our bodies full of preservatives and sealing it in a concrete tomb underground. I also hate cremation, even if it is accompanied by planting trees over the ashes.

      I think the best legacy is to transfer our ATP to organisms in a food web. How cool is it to imagine our energy transfered into fertilizing plants and eaten by insects, which are eaten by frogs, which are eaten by snakes, and then hawks, etc.

      So much cooler than wasting it in cremation or trying to preserve a useless empty vessel. What cooler legacy is there than allowing your energy to be carried on through an endless chain of diverse lifeforms?

    • Flying Squid
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      I’m into the idea of sky burial like in Asia. Let the birds eat me.

      Probably not legal here in the U.S. though.

      • 1ostA5tro6yne
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        210 months ago

        that’s why i like the body farm idea. they leave your corpse out in the elements and let nature take its course so forensics students can study it.

        • Flying Squid
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          310 months ago

          I like that idea too, but how do you guarantee your corpse goes to a body farm? Honest question.

          • 1ostA5tro6yne
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            110 months ago

            I have the same question, especially since the wishes of people who donate their bodies to this-or-that don’t seem to be particularly respected per the article.

            • @hakobo
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              This doesn’t provide an answer, but seems relevant. John Oliver did a piece on the loose nature of “donating my body to science” and also the issues with the current organ donation system in the US.

              https://youtu.be/Tn7egDQ9lPg

    • @afraid_of_zombies
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      110 months ago

      Embalming is optional in the US. I have had someone here tell me it is non-optional in some countries like Spain.

  • @Haxle
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    710 months ago

    Herbert West just can’t catch a break.

    • @afraid_of_zombies
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      210 months ago

      To life to life I brought them

      He really did bring them to life

      Think of it papa we will never die, live forever-

      My!

      And if that life has no quality, sure there is the quantity.

      Because I bring them to life!

      Die die die dum dum dum die dum die dum

    • @Cuttlefish1111
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      It should be surprising and induce anger. The conservatives want Apathy among progressives and the normalization of disgusting behavior. This is outrageous and the perpetrators should be prosecuted to the fullest extent possible

      There is a propaganda technique which uses phrases such as “water is wet” or “news at 11, sky is blue”. It is done to disarm outrage. You see it In nearly every single article about corruption in every way. It is so successful even the working class repeats it. Im not saying you’re a propagandist or anything. Jerry Springer had a talent for normalizing the trashiest immoral behavior, just to make himself a few bucks.

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        510 months ago

        The fuck? No. Conservative politicians tend to want you outraged, it’s how they get you to agree with their harsher policies.

      • @[email protected]
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        410 months ago

        You are free to feel however you feel, and unfortunately for you, so am I.
        Which, if you’re wondering, is unsurprised.

        • @Cuttlefish1111
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          What is it with this toxic attitude where people always try to get in the last word, even when it adds nothing to the conversation ?

          • @[email protected]
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            510 months ago

            Like you are doing right now?

            He did add something, he stated that Regardless of your comment, telling people how they are supposed to feel, they still felt what they originally expressed.

            Then you got angry for some reason? Idk, its what i observed.

            I get what you where saying, but if this is your usually comment style you will find even your allies opposing.

            • @Cuttlefish1111
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              He stated his opinion. As did I. I did not get angry. I stated an observation. One shared by many. This forum grows more and more toxic by the day.

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                510 months ago

                Can you please explain/quote what he said that you find toxic?

                The only toxicity i see here is you calling them toxic.

                I agree thats its sadly the way a forum grows but they did not act out of line at all.

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                  I stated my opinion. They re-stated theirs in a childish manner.

      • @AngryCommieKender
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        Jerry Springer is a prime example of the rule that our society seems to have that, at some point once you’re rich/powerful enough, you are not allowed to fail.

        The show was a complete train wreck, that just begged to be watched, and that was his rebound career. After he got busted cause he paid a prostitute with a city check while mayor of Cincinnati.