I want to bind a book with you.

Alright, here's the question, in two parts. Firstly, would you agree to sell you skin for the purpose of it being skinned off of your body, tanned, and used to bind books.

I would like to point out, because apparently it wasn't implied originally, that this is all allowing that you have died of natural causes, disease, or accident. Think organ donor card here.

Secondly, would you buy books bound with human skin? Journals, ledgers, address books, maybe some custom bound hardbacks?

The question arises because A. after you're dead you probably don't need you skin anymore. and B. It'd be bloody well awesome to have a book made from some of the more interestingly tattoo'd individuals of the world.

[Edited on Mar 16, 2005 by Frank]

[Edited on Mar 17, 2005 by Frank]

Every time my grandma sees my tatoos she tells me that "they're going to make lamp-shades out of you!!"

But um, no thanks.

That's well and good and all, but when you become a zombie, how stupid are you gonna look being the only zombie without skin?
Almost as bad as the zombies who donate their organs to hospitals. Then they're all hollow and shit.

I can't imagine my grandma saying that to me.

My grandma would just show me her tattoos. I'd be all like "No, Grandma, not that one! AAaaaRRRrrrgh!"

ick!! plus how cool will those same tattoos look on 85 year old skin..

I'll distract him, you whack him over the head!

something like this?

When I typed this I meant "I'll distract the original poster, and anyone else who is freaked the fuck out by him can whack him over the ehad", but on re-reading it I can see that it maybe looks like I'm joining him in a killing and skinning and book-binding spree.

Oh man, I clicked this thinking it was about book and book binding and the geek in me was getting all excited. Instead it's just some weirdo creep with a thing for making books out of people

If I'm dead, you can do whatever the fuck you want with my corpse...see if I care.

But make damn sure I'm dead, okay?

Hmmm...I already have the original necronomicon, so number two would be a yes.

we're talking after we're dead right? i have this paranoia that if i agree to something like this you will hunt me down and kill me just so you can have your skin sooner. this is why i am not an organ donor.

but other then that i don't think i would mind. make a photo album out of it and give it to my children just to creep them out. as long as it was boring skin off my back or legs of something. i don't want you making a book out of my boobies and being groped by children after i'm dead.

question: could you tattoo boring skin postmordum?

wouldn't if be fun to get back at that grandma who nagged you about how "you're going to regret that ugly tattoo when you're my age" by tattooing a big biker gang tattoo on her arm right before her open casket funeral?

do u mean after i die? or while i am alive?

Bound in the skin of murderer Thomas Horwood.

riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight

Okay, just so everyone can calm down...

Let's say you die. Like, you're walking down the streat, and a bowling ball from heaven cracks you in the noggin. So, now you're dead, and you've gone off to New Jersey, which unbeknownst to everyone is the waiting room for heaven.

Now, allow me to repeat this. You are medically, ethically, religiously, and in all other ways pushing up daisies at this point.

So, allow me to ask the question. Would you enjoy the idea that, when you died of natural causes, disease, or accident, your skin, which is just like animal skin, except it is yours, would be used to make leather, which would in turn be used to bind a book. possibly a book of your choice.

Would that be cool? Knowing there after you died there would be a copy of 'The Complete Works of Lovecraft' floating around, bound in human skin, with your tatoo centered on the front cover and you name noted inside the jacket for posterity?

I Ask because in my worldview you are entirely done with your body after death, so you might as well let someone else use it to make interesting and morbid consumer goods.

Hey, and you know, I just had an interesting thought. I bet they can't use skin with tattoos on it for tranplant in the advent that an organ donor dies and they can use said persons skin at all. I wonder what they do with all those patches of skin with tattoos. Hmm.

[Edited on Mar 17, 2005 by Frank]

I forget, where does it put the lotion?

Everytime I think site can't get any weirder, a thread like this pops up. Or Lain starts any thread. Either way.

Well, I suppose the Secret Order Of The Interesting And Unexpected Post couldn't exist in the shadows forever. In truth, it has been the ninjas of the SOIUP who have motivated and directed all interenet message boards for years!

Eitherway, why is everyone so freaked out by this idea? When the service that makes dead people into diamonds was mentioned on the boards, it got consistent rounds of applause. Thematically, I don't see much difference between this idea and the diamonds, except that diamonds are sparkley, whereas leather is useful. And honestly, if you're all gung-ho about being made into a worthless ornamental rock, why does being made into a book, a repository of human knowledge, freak so many people out? It is just some latent holywood inspired fear that Buffalo Bill is going to come hunt you down or is there another reason?

Are you kidding me? Of course you can!



Just as long as get your WHOLE body when you die. I will use you to serve hors d'oeuvres to my guests. I will put you on a track that goes around the room. Also, I will store you in the freezer.

You are probably kidding, but, I have a great uncle who does the same kind of thing. No shit. Every fucking time he meets a new person. Usually not until he was drunk, but sometimes, depending on the situation, while completely sober. I hear the nursing home staff thinks it is hilarious.

zombies, hannibal,...is the soylent green joke still open.

yes, you may.
I would like my back to be bound to "Catch-22".
I would like my abdomen bound to an unabridged dictionary.
I would like my member bound to...(I almost said "a children's book" because those are small books, but with the general creepiness pervading this thread mixed with the whole Jacko proceedings, I thought it best not to.)

Now, would you consider having your bones bleached and used as dash inlays on a 1963 Lincoln Continental restoration?

[Edited on Mar 17, 2005 by TBSheets]