The suspects “stole dissected portions of donated cadavers, including, for example, heads, brains, skin, bones, and other human remains," an indictment says.
[...] "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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Caitlin Doughty (the YouTube mortician lady) just put out a fantastic video on this very subject yesterday. If you are interested and have about 20 minutes to spare it's well worth the watch:
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.
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.
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?
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?
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.
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.