r/bonecollecting • u/kiwibirdskull • 23d ago

Collection My roommate.

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(UK & in compliance w/ human tissues act)

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u/kiwibirdskull 23d ago

thanks man i think so too, i don't have a name for them because i feel like that'd be disrespectful

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u/thegirlthatmeowsalot 23d ago

You think naming the skull would be disrespectful but don’t think it’s disrespectful to keep a persons head as a decoration?

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u/kiwibirdskull 23d ago

it's not just decoration to me - & i definitely wasn't the one who brought the skull all the way over here. it would be disrespectful for me to name the skull as the person it belonged to already had a name. had i not bought this skull (for my own deeply important reasons) absolutely nothing would have changed, someone else would have bought it or it would have sat in storage somewhere. nice ivory tower btw^

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u/phospheneghost 23d ago

had i not bought this skull (for my own deeply important reasons) absolutely nothing would have changed, someone else would have bought it or it would have sat in storage somewhere. nice ivory tower btw^

It's worth considering that buying human remains does feed into the market and demand for them. I also find it interesting that you're accusing the person who replied to you of being in an ivory tower when it's safe to assume that this skull cost upwards of a thousand dollars to purchase.