Custodians are not supposed to destroy what is in their care. This is not about the book, this is about the artefact. The time, the reasons, the history behind

Custodians are not supposed to destroy what is in their care. This is not about the book, this is about the artefact. The time, the reasons, the history behind it. If that is how it came to us, and that is how it has been preserved, then there is no point in changing it. They could have written their reservations, taken the opportunity to do some ethical pedagogy about it (by far not the only artefact made of human skin, by the way), contextualised it, explained it. But to destroy it? Totally unjustifiable decision.