THATS THE TOE NECKLACE PERSON AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH
this is genuinely so fucking disgusting and horrifying. let her rest in peace and stop being a racist piece of shit with a CHILD’S REMAINS
Chiming in as a professional osteologist: this is wildly unethical and unfortunately extremely common. Big shock, but most bone hoarders are entirely ignorant of history and/or racist shit heads who powertrip off the opportunity to own somebody else’s remains. Most are unspeakably boring people who feel the need to pretend to be a witch / cultist / scientist / curator so that someone will think they are edgy and cool, and either don’t know/ don’t care that many older medical specimens were obtained before consent and professional codes of ethics were a thing. Inevitably, academic institutions clean up the messes that these idiots leave behind, and this behavior isn’t victim free. There is a huge difference between donated medical specimens, and whatever the fuck this situation is. Nobody ever consented to be shown off like a trophy by some empty-headed scene kid whose grasp of human decency is even shittier than her dye job.
If you want cool bones for the Aesthetique, consider Bone Clones or something similar. You can even get bone casts of rare, endangered, or extinct animals as well as human casts, with waaaaaayyyyy less legal/ethical hairiness. Shit, we used them in my Mammology lab because who the fuck is gonna get hold of a real live dead lemur/manatee/hyena/thylacine for a shitty little podunk college in the middle of nowhere?
I get it, bones are rad and cool, but please consider alternatives to actual human remains. There’s a long and angry history of white westerners treating the remains of literally anyone else like trash, so let’s not continue that practice. It’s time to cool it.
There are, of course, caveats for certain things. For example, I’d like to will my skull to my best friend because he’d probably appreciate it, but hell if I know if that’s a thing I am legally allowed to do.
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