Grave robbing suspected in unregulated UK trade in human bones

[killer b]

Shop the cunt

I'm not sure what I would shop her for tbh

 

[Tanya1982]

ah yes. A goth acquaintance has recently acquired a human skull off instagram, and I am totally not surprised to read this.

WTF?

 

[nogojones]

ah yes. A goth acquaintance has recently acquired a human skull off instagram, and I am totally not surprised to read this.

When I die can I donate my body to goth research?

 

[NoXion]

I'd be totally cool with someone turning my skull into an ashtray or whatever, once I'm no longer using it to hold my brains. Seems much less wasteful than just sticking it in the ground or incinerating it.

 

[tim]

Lots of Scottish cemeteries have a watchtower like this from when Burke and Hare were digging people up to sell for medical dissections

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Maybe we should be manning them again. Actually there's been some weird gravestone thefts going on around here recently too:

Another historic Edinburgh headstone has been stolen from city graveyard

A cash reward has been offered for the safe return of a 123-year-old Victorian gravestone after it was stolen from an Edinburgh cemetery.

www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com

I thought that the issue with Burke and Hare was that they skipped the digging-up phase of the process.

 

[pug]

I could make a cool angle poise lamp from a few bones and stuff, maybe people could have themselves specially repurposed after death to make useful household items for the family, people get remains made into gems or blasted into space, the undertaker could offer it as another service.

 

[weepiper]

I thought that the issue with Burke and Hare was that they skipped the digging-up phase of the process.

You're right of course, I should have said the Resurrection Men

Resurrectionists in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Burke and Hare could only sell their victims so easily because the watchtowers etc had already made the digging up route much harder.

 

[furluxor]

So is this zero waste or peak capitalism?

Exactly what I wanted to stumble upon over breakfast. Might go back to bed.