• Ariselas@piefed.ca
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    10 days ago

    Pirates of the Caribbean in Disneyland also used medical skeletons. It wasn’t that long ago that they were really easy to purchase, a couple instructors at my university had full skeletons and would bring them in for class. I wanted to buy one just to keep in my closet as a joke, but beer came first.

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      9 days ago

      In Germany a school recently held a funeral for their school skeleton, which was an actual human. They suspected that this was a young Indian man. Up to the 20th century, you could easily buy a dead person from India. There are still schools with actual human remains.

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        9 days ago

        I plan on donating my me to a school with human remains, for dissection in their cadaver lab. Afters, composting. Probably won’t happen, but we’re gonna try