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Drats!

"There is no legal pathway in Michigan for a private individual to have their head removed, the flesh stripped, and the skull preserved for personal/family keepsake purposes.

While the idea feels personal and intimate to you, it is currently illegal in Michigan and most other states. The law treats the body with certain protections even after death, and deliberate mutilation (especially something as extreme as beheading and flaying) is not permitted for sentimental reasons."

I read that elephants are possessive of the bones of deceased loved ones. What humans have done to elephants, whales etc. is by far our species’ worst crime.

Seems like if you could leave your body to a medical school and have the thing laying on a table with a bunch of strangers making jokes about it, you should be able to have your disembodied head flayed, and leave your bleached skull to your family. Frankly, that should be a common practice. That's better than getting dressed up, driving somewhere to see an embalmed corpse in their Sunday clothing in a room full of flowers - THAT'S fng weird if you ask me.

I can't bring myself to go to funerals anymore. It's so utterly deranged I can't get my head around it. And then to be trapped in there in rows of seats facing the dead body while some priest says the repetitive prayer of the roseary is over the edge. It's GD Medieval ...so far into weirdness that I'm shocked more people aren't as disgusted as I am with ourselves for making that happen.

I'm starting to get pissed off about this. If I had more money, I'd get a lawyer to craft some type of will or trust that maybe set up a private 'research' llc that I could donate my corpse to, have my skull flayed and bleached and the rest discard in a sanitary fashion. After the 'research' was concluded, the skull could be  bequeathed to my heirs, or they could simply be 'members' of the llc and have possession of my artfully reduced earthly remains.

This is the total number of times I have visited family members graves: 0

Now if I had a bleached skull on the mantle, I'd be thinking about the dearly departed often. I'd probably talk to the skull. This should be a thing. I wonder who my state congress person is.

This is even worse. Although my dream of being beheaded flayed and bleached post mortem may be legally forbidden, it is legal to have your entire body 'plasticized' - embalmed in some type of epoxy - and your family can retain your plastic body; which is sickening.
Probably the best use of all resources, land, wood, concrete, metal, money...would be to allow the family to walk away with a bleached skull in a hat box and have the balance of the remains composted in some fashion.

Cemeteries are a sick joke too. It's all weird. What we do is the absolutely identical mindset that hominids were grooving to 300k ybp red ochre, grave goods - makeup, jewelry, suit and tie, fancy casket...Same thing...superstition. We're still howling at the Moon.