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Nic

Nic

SUICIDEGIRL

United Kingdom

JAN 09, 2006 04:12 AM

In Surgeon's Hall in Edinburgh there is either a book or a wallet made from the skin of famous grave robber/ murderer William Burke. Burke and his partner, William Hare, used to provide cadavers for the medical school at a time when it was illegal to study dead bodies. However, they got sick of digging up fresh graves and instead decided to cut out the hard work and killed drunks and prositiutes to sell to the school instead. When they got caught, Burke was hung but Hare was exiled to England for giving evidence against his partner. Spoooooky stuff. The medical school also kept his skeleton.

leavemehere

leavemehere

San Diego, CA
December 2002

JAN 09, 2006 04:48 AM

Nic said:
In Surgeon's Hall in Edinburgh there is either a book or a wallet made from the skin of famous grave robber/ murderer William Burke. Burke and his partner, William Hare, used to provide cadavers for the medical school at a time when it was illegal to study dead bodies. However, they got sick of digging up fresh graves and instead decided to cut out the hard work and killed drunks and prositiutes to sell to the school instead. When they got caught, Burke was hung but Hare was exiled to England for giving evidence against his partner. Spoooooky stuff. The medical school also kept his skeleton.



I saw a movie from 1959 this past halloween about those two... it was called The Flesh and the Fiends, I had no idea it was based on fact?
How cool!!!

Cigarette

Cigarette

Cleveland, OH
April 2004

JAN 09, 2006 06:12 AM

Nic said:
In Surgeon's Hall in Edinburgh there is either a book or a wallet made from the skin of famous grave robber/ murderer William Burke. Burke and his partner, William Hare, used to provide cadavers for the medical school at a time when it was illegal to study dead bodies. However, they got sick of digging up fresh graves and instead decided to cut out the hard work and killed drunks and prositiutes to sell to the school instead. When they got caught, Burke was hung but Hare was exiled to England for giving evidence against his partner. Spoooooky stuff. The medical school also kept his skeleton.


Wasn't that the basis of the movie, The Body Snatchers, with Boris Karloff? (Not to be confused with The Invasion of the Body Snatchers.)

Eddie

Eddie

SUICIDEGIRL

British Columbia, Canada

JAN 09, 2006 10:02 AM

Wow... that is really neat... human skin books. Humans are all fucks so I don't really mind if one is dead that they use the skin (or whatever else) ... I mean, to kill purposely for this, that is a bad as how people purposely kill animals. Heck... if all the meat people ate came from already dead animals I wouldn't mind.

oh and I have heard of this tattooed human skin lamp. Very freaky. I'm sure every SG and member are hoping that there will never be a time like that again, I mean, not just for reasons of how horrible it all was... but this is a website full of very... er... beautiful lampshades.

Eddie

Eddie

SUICIDEGIRL

British Columbia, Canada

JAN 09, 2006 10:04 AM

Okay that whole comment seems very morbid of me.

I don't actually want people to continue making these human skin items.. by the way... I may have not come across like that!

pearldiver

pearldiver

San Antonio, TX
November 2005

JAN 09, 2006 10:31 AM

Wallace said:
i don't understand the problem. i mean, they were dead already, right? and no one else claimed their bodies, right? and the skin was just being used to bind books, good & seemingly important books like the quran & stuff about medicine & science. that doesn't seem so bad to me.

i'm one of those people who will probably put it in my will to have my ashes turned into diamonds when i die, and i have considered having my cat skinned when he passes & having his pelt made into a stole or something. does that make me a bad person? i dunno..

at least it's not like what that one SS captain's wife did during the holocaust, which was go "shopping" for prisoners with interesting tattoos, have them killed & skinned and then use their skin to make lampshades & gloves & stuff, and shrink their heads & put them up on her mantlepiece. now that is fucking sick & wrong.



pearldiver

pearldiver

San Antonio, TX
November 2005

JAN 09, 2006 10:37 AM

Wallace said:
i don't understand the problem. i mean, they were dead already, right? and no one else claimed their bodies, right? and the skin was just being used to bind books, good & seemingly important books like the quran & stuff about medicine & science. that doesn't seem so bad to me.

i'm one of those people who will probably put it in my will to have my ashes turned into diamonds when i die, and i have considered having my cat skinned when he passes & having his pelt made into a stole or something. does that make me a bad person? i dunno..

at least it's not like what that one SS captain's wife did during the holocaust, which was go "shopping" for prisoners with interesting tattoos, have them killed & skinned and then use their skin to make lampshades & gloves & stuff, and shrink their heads & put them up on her mantlepiece. now that is fucking sick & wrong.




You are thinking about Ilsa Koch, the so-called she-wolf of the SS, I believe. I once saw a short video of what was supposed to be part of her collection. It was from black and white film, shot from ten or more feet away, and looked like a lot of sheets of parchment paper laid out on tables. With no sound or narration. The camera was too far away to discern much detail, but it was pretty spooky.

Tilia

Tilia

Seaside, OR
October 2005

JAN 09, 2006 10:38 AM

There is virtually no difference between animal leather and human leather..... after reading this I thought wierd, I couldn't have one in my house it would be creepy. Then I remembered the skull. My mother is a doctor and baught a human skull before the they outlawed the selling of human remains in India.... this was probably stolen from a grave. When my dad was stalking my mom he took the womans teeth and then her jaw. Anyhow I'm around this thing all the time (I used to work in the office with it) doesn't bother me at all. So I could probably read the book and not be bothered. However not if it was suspected the person was murdered and then utilized..... as in the Holocaust.

pearldiver

pearldiver

San Antonio, TX
November 2005

JAN 09, 2006 10:50 AM

Tilia said:
There is virtually no difference between animal leather and human leather..... after reading this I thought wierd, I couldn't have one in my house it would be creepy. Then I remembered the skull. My mother is a doctor and baught a human skull before the they outlawed the selling of human remains in India.... this was probably stolen from a grave. When my dad was stalking my mom he took the womans teeth and then her jaw. Anyhow I'm around this thing all the time (I used to work in the office with it) doesn't bother me at all. So I could probably read the book and not be bothered. However not if it was suspected the person was murdered and then utilized..... as in the Holocaust.



If you don't mind my asking, what was all the stalking about?? And the teeth and jaw thing? Just curious...

HAVOC904

HAVOC904

Carrollton, TX
December 2005

JAN 09, 2006 12:25 PM


What else were they supposed to do with all the babies that died before the invention of many medicenes?

Thats like throwing out a perfectly good hamburger.

Unskeptic

Unskeptic

Columbus, OH
November 2005

JAN 09, 2006 07:56 PM

Surely Nixon has a comment?!?!

Some1Good

Some1Good

Franklinville, NY
December 2005

JAN 10, 2006 01:24 AM

Hey, we aren't too far from doctors being able to grow "Humane" leather out of human DNA through clever cloning related technologies... Humane in the sense that it would just be cloned skin, with no cloned person attached, that is. They are doing something similar with that creepy "bone ring" news story that has been floating around for a while, actually. Definately interesting smile

Of course it could also majorly help burn victims and those with skin cancer, but that's just a happy bonus when compared to the chance to send your enemies a supple and high quality leather jacket... MADE OF THEIR OWN SKIN! BWAHAHA biggrinbiggrinbiggrin

Evil, me? Never! confused

[Edited on Jan 10, 2006 by Some1Good]

Dark_Templar

Dark_Templar

Auburn, CA
June 2004

JAN 10, 2006 03:35 PM

Wow thats awesome biggrin

Joual

Joual

Israel
October 2005

JAN 10, 2006 03:42 PM

Some1Good said:
Hey, we aren't too far from doctors being able to grow "Humane" leather out of human DNA through clever cloning related technologies... Humane in the sense that it would just be cloned skin, with no cloned person attached, that is. They are doing something similar with that creepy "bone ring" news story that has been floating around for a while, actually. Definately interesting smile

Of course it could also majorly help burn victims and those with skin cancer, but that's just a happy bonus when compared to the chance to send your enemies a supple and high quality leather jacket... MADE OF THEIR OWN SKIN! BWAHAHA biggrinbiggrinbiggrin

Evil, me? Never! confused

[Edited on Jan 10, 2006 by Some1Good]



That's a fiendishly clever plan, I'm going to have to look into that biggrin.

timeandtimeagain

timeandtimeagain

United Kingdom
December 2005

JAN 10, 2006 07:38 PM

awesome...we have some use then?

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