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Who is the skeleton buried by a secret society under this Baltimore bar?
- pmdulaney 2y agoImproved title: "Whose skeleton was buried by a secret society under this Baltimore bar?"
- qup 2y agoIn the new title, the skeleton has gone from person to property.
- LoganDark 2y agoI would say the skeleton is a property of the body. I wouldn't say I'm my skeleton - I'm just a flesh automaton animated by neurotransmitters...
- cameroncooper 2y ago"flesh automaton" reminds me of this great short story by Terry Bisson I came across in an issue of MIT's Twelve Tomorrows https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/thinkingMeat.html https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/think...
- cheeseomlit 2y agoTime to go back to the archon grid for that sweet divine light
- Strang 2y agoGrammatical possession does not imply property. "My grandmother," "my hometown," "my skeleton," etc.
- drhagen 2y agoIn Chapter 21 of the Screwtape Letters, CS Lewis discusses the dangers of interchanging of the various flavors of "my". (Well, a fictional demon monologues about the utility of confusing "my" in the mind of humans, but that's the Screwtape Letters for you.)
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- fluoridation 2y agoNo skeleton has ever been a person.
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- throwup238 2y ago> The skeleton’s bones are held together by wire, like you would see in a school biology set, and he suspects the IORM ordered the body through a catalog. Kind of buried the lede there. > He and Hatem believe The Bluebird’s skeleton could be that of a woman, based on its small stature and broad hips. Benkert said a historian he consulted in 2017 guessed the skeleton may have been a young man, possibly from India. Given the timing, India or the dead body of an unclaimed indigent were my first guesses.
- GJim 2y agoIn the late 19th and early 20th century it was commonplace for educational skeletons to be made from real bodies, frequently sold by poor Indian families. This only stopped when plastic became a practical option. And before somebody cries foul; education is very important, and real bodies were once the only source of durable anatomically correct teaching skeletons.
- giarc 2y agoA colleague of mine studied physiology and anatomy at McGill University likely in the 1970s. She said the cadavers were mainly unclaimed bodies of homeless people from the city of Montreal. The rule was that all work was to be done in the university labs, but she said students often snuck body parts out to conduct dissection work after hours in their dorm rooms. A lot has changed in the field, but it wasn't that long ago that we treated the dead like a tool.
- wslh 2y agoMedical schools in countries like Argentina use cadavers as an essential tool for teaching anatomy, allowing students to gain hands-on experience and a deeper understanding of human anatomy.
- bhickey 2y agoYou may have misunderstood the above comment. While using cadavers in medical education is commonplace, _taking body parts home_ is no longer the norm.
- JKCalhoun 2y agohttps://archive.ph/QYhl4 https://archive.ph/QYhl4
- wkat4242 2y agoAh thanks that link worked for me in Europe.
- bell-cot 2y ago> Because of the skeleton’s age, The Bluebird [bar] said it did not contact Baltimore Police to look into the discovery. The department’s policy is ... WARNING: This sort of policy varies by municipality. If you'd prefer to minimize unpleasant interactions with your local law enforcement, do not make assumptions.
- standeven 2y agoWhen I was a young teen, I volunteered at the local YMCA to help set up a "haunted house" (actually a squash court) for Halloween. One of the decorations I pulled out of a storage closet was a display skeleton. I set it up and was having fun playing around with it when I noticed it had some metal fillings in the teeth...and everything was a bit TOO realistic. I still get the heebie-jeebies thinking about it.
- boomboomsubban 2y agoIt's happened before, see Elmer McCurdy who they discovered wasn't actually a wax figure while filming a TV show https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer_McCurdy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer_McCurdy
- DidYaWipe 2y agoThe TV show was The Six Million Dollar Man.
- ceejayoz 2y agoMy dad, during med school, had to purchase a human skeleton. We're not quite sure what to do with it now. I'd like to give it a respectful burial, without causing a police response.
- fluoridation 2y agoImmure it and leave it as a surprise for the future to find. Bonus points for leaving confusing clues around the house.
- CoastalCoder 2y agoMaybe give the local DA a call and ask for advice?
- GuB-42 2y agoWhat about calling the med school back? They may have a use for it for teaching (as your dad did), and if not, it should be a question they are familiar with.
- artie_effim 2y agoDang - that's like 4 blocks from my house!
- xhkkffbf 2y agoThis is the kind of reason I pay for good journalism. Not to get some endorsement for an election. I can make up my own mind. I want someone to do the searching and write up.