Remains To Be Seen #shorts

[SholtoMaru]

I think it's totally fine, provided that's what they wanted when they were alive, like Tchaikovsky.

[DryRoach]

Even after death disney will still have you working

[theequalizer]

If someone donates their body to science, I wouldn't call being an exhibit on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride science.

[Werevampiwolf]

I'm 100% cool with using Tchaikovsky's skull for Yorick, because that was explicitly what he wanted to be done, but I don't think we should be using bodies that were donated for science as props for non-educational things. And especially not bodies that were trafficked or stolen. I do think it should be considered acceptable for people to donate their bodies to art, if that's what they want to do, in the same way that bodies being donated to science is considered acceptable.

[morningsidedriverock]

The only way I’ll ever be in a movie or tv show is my skeleton. Gives the meaning “Over my dead body” a new meaning.

[olliecoke]

I actually saw David Tennant play Hamlet in that production, along with Patrick Stewart as Claudius 😊

[robertporter]

They even put his name on the Playbill as playing Yorick in the cast.

[brett]

As long as there is some level of consent and the actors and crew are OK with it. Ask a Mortician has some wild stories of bodies that had some wild afterlives, without consent.

[YellaSpiceFamily]

The medical supply loophole isn't always without moral issues, either. When I was a kid, the community theater I acted in chose to remodel, and found a skeleton in a box in the basement. Turned out to be one used for medical student supplies. However, the building - on an old main Street in a small town - was very old: the owner felt conflicted about the skeleton, and had the bones tested. They belonged to a native American and dated to the westward expansion: his bones were pretty certainly NOT donated. She had him sent to a reservation for proper interment.

[Robert-fgxb]

I think it's totally wrong for a body to be donated to science and then for science to determine it could be used for entertainment. I don't think that was in their last wishes.

[joevalli]

No bones about it. Scott delivers another jaw dropping video !! 😊

[cheydinal]

It used to be until a few decades ago that some human bones and skeletons that were sold (mainly) to educational facilities actually were just homeless and poor people in India who were likely often murdered by those human (remains) traffickers. Rohin Francis, a.k.a. Medflie Crisis (a British doctor who makes educational science videos) on YouTube made a video about that once

[WillemPenn]

Use of a real dead body brought production of an episode of “The Six Million Dollar Man” to a halt during filming one day in the 70’s. Apparently no one knew that the prop mummy in the fun-house at the Pike (a former amusement park in Long Beach, CA) was a real mummified person. Somehow one of the limbs fell off and the bones were exposed, so the cops were called, and the place was cordoned off and became a crime scene. It is a pretty interesting story because the guy was a Wild West bandit who had been killed and embalmed a century before. His body had changed hands so many times people lost track that it was a real person and not just a stage prop.

[peatmarshnotfound]

This is bone chilling, jaw dropping and spine tingling! Where do I donate my bones!?

[HartleysFilms]

I think a lot of folks would say it's okay as long as the dead person was ok with it, but it's not so cut and dry. John Oliver had a great piece on people donating their bodies to science and it's apparently really hard to know what's gonna happen to a person once they donate their body. You might go to medical research, or you might end up a prop in an amusement park... Personally, I probably would avoid using real bones/bodies.

[fluffysheap]

We need sternum rules about real bones in movies, otherwise there's no way to patella what's ethically sourced. It would be too easy to stirrup trouble with skullduggery

[vizualvoice]

As someone who spent the majority of his career in the theater, I would love to eventually become a prop.

[nillanapier]

I don't think they should be using medical donations for that myself, they wanted to preserve and further medical science, not Disney's bottom line

[AresLeviathan]

I just gained a new respect for David Tenant.

[Green_Tea_Coffee]

There was also the use of a human cadaver for the bullet wound scene in the George Clooney movie "Three Kings."