Morbid handle material

AchimW, good catch. To clarify, I have zero opposition to usage of human donor organs for beneficial medical research, or to sustain or improve human life.

My 'beef' is with the trivialization of human life by usage of 'parts' in an object d'art, just because an individual had a morbid fascination with that what they found to be 'neat'...

btw, Disco Stu, I believe that's what’s called a 'metaphor'

-S
 
Hannibal types, or worse, would be the only buyers of knives with human remains. I thought this stuff ended in WW2.

For one, I'd give up the business if that was the market/product.
 
Melvin-Purvis, i think that it depends on the (last) will of the "used" person, too. I for one have a large classic japanese bodysuit tattoo and i would hate to see it disappear with the rest of my body. Soooo, i wrote down a last will in which i say that the body should be given to a (swiss) specialist who will preserve the skin (and any other parts that may be useful for him). The best thing IMO would be if it would be possible to give it back to my family to make a wallhanger from the canvas.

I don't have a problem with letting others do this with me and i would not have a problem to do it with other remains, human or not, too. As said above, it's just dead organic matter, no other than a dead animal or a cut off tree.

Achim
 
Originally posted by R Dannemann
Hannibal types, or worse, would be the only buyers of knives with human remains. I thought this stuff ended in WW2.

For one, I'd give up the business if that was the market/product.
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Pardon me, but I beg to differ.

I, personally, would perhaps be someone to buy a knife made with a human bone handle.
I however, am not a "Hannibal type, or worse"... I;ve never had an interest in eating the flesh of another human being, infact the idea revolts me, Also, aside from one particular individual (who did great harm to a very young girl, who years later is a friend of mine and still carries the scars of what he did), I've never even wanted to hurt someone.

And yet, still, I would be tempted to buy such a thing if it were out there.

Also, earlier in this thread, Pyroradical made the comment that she too would buy something like that. She is the love of my life, and the fact that you would *dare* imply that she is a "Hannibal type, or worse" for any reason, I find offensive.

Please, before you make such statements, try to realize, some of us dont have a problem with the bones of a dead human, and consider them just bones, but we are still people, and not monsters, such as you would suggest.
 
This is deep! I shuddered to even open stus link but I did. This is way overboard IN MY OPINION! OPINION! First of all bunnyhuggers beware, God put us(us being referred to as humans) on this planet to have control over the animals. We are the top of the food chain. As long as the animals are given a sporting and fair chance, I will shoot them during hunting season. And the best respect I could give that animal (as the american Indians did) is to use every last piece of that animal to the best of my ability. My family and I eat the meat and use the rest somehow. Using their bones is a way of showing the animal spiritually that they did not die in vain. Human bones on the other hand No Way! Thats crazy unless as stated by a few it was the last will and testament of the deceased and they will have to find another maker cause I could not do it. That fellow human was put here on this earth to govern it with me. Sick and cannibalistic. Now you take a pen full of hogs and have one die, go back in the morning and the dead will be eaten. BUT I AM NOT A HOG! I have the capability of reasoning like a human so I will exercise that right! Satin, is that supposed to represent the fabric or the leader of the underworld? Just curious. Never understood Goth anyways. Too weird for me. Cory
 
...IMNSHO, there are two kinds of people in this world, "Friends, and targets"

Some of you folks just got taken off the Christmas card list...

'Nuff said
 
Yeah, while you at it you can use the untattooed part to make a sheath for your H-bone handled knife.:barf: :barf: Just my .02
PS :barf:
 
I think I have a new friend...Merry Christmas.

This thread has been like slowing down to look at a car wreck or having that little sore in your mouth that you know is going to hurt like the dickens when you touch it with your tongue but you just HAVE to do it anyway.

I am a little perplexed by some of the responses to this thread. To think, some of these folks will be old enough to vote someday.

C Wilkins
 
I think this has been a good thread. It discusses an issue that was likely to come up eventually and, with the exception of Melvin-Purvis and his poorly expressed hyperbole, it has been done in an adult manner. It has also helped me work through my own opinion on the matter.
 
Historically, people have decorated themselves and their tools with artifacts (bones) of large and usually hard to kill game animals. Nowhere in the civilized world do people decorate with human remnants, with a few exceptions like the nazi's "skin" lampshades, but maybe they were just "honoring" the Jews they were peeled off of,yeah,right, and I do not consider nazi's civilized. In New Guinea, some of the tribes ate people, they also died of a version of mad cow disease long before it was ever known in England. As soon as new areas of the world come to light, the yum-yums crawl away in shame. I dont know, if your priorities are with the likes of the third reich, or idi amin, Hell, go for it, just dont come around me or I'll point you out to Melvin, he will track you down and KILL YOU,then he will EAT YOU!!!:rolleyes:
 
When I die, I hope my body is donated to art. I can't think of a better use for it, and it won't do anyone any good rotting in the ground. I would like to know that my bones were made into knife handles.
 
I make my living carving bones(mostly whale)and ivory.I have respect for the animals and the hunters that took them but the idea of using human remains as "art" is something that I would not consider.We are different.I was at a community meal in a remote eskimo villiage last year and before we ate small portions of food were taken out and buried for the "ones that had gone before us".My friends in the villiags will not go near where the old ones remains are.If,as the religion taught in our schools says we are just a product of chance it would not matter.We are designed by a loving God.There is evidence of creation and design all around us we are created in the image of God that is why we must create.
Chuck
 
Very interesting thread.

I just saw a story on the news about a woman that makes jewelry from human bones. It is totally legal, the bones she buys mostly come from high schools and colleges that have upgraded to synthetic skeletons as they hold up much better to the abuse they encounter in the classroom.

I thought it was a little weird, but to each his own. The skeletons were donated by their owners, before they died.

I actually think this is pretty funny, as I once told some ladies at a crafts show that a handle on one of my knives (it was stag with all the texture ground off) was a femur. They thought I was crazy, but I then told them what it really was.

As a personal trainer, I deeply believe that our body is the most important thing we have to take care of (we can't take care of our family if we don't take care of ourself), and that it's the most amazing instrument we will ever encounter. BUT, in the long run, it's only a vehicle for us to carry around our soul and project who we are to others. In the end, it's an empty shell.

So, personally, if someone wants to make a bone handled knife (whatever the bone) I see it as their choice. I'm not going to stand on a soap box and tell them how "sick" OR "cool" they are.

Good thread Disco Stu
Nick
 
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