Our new Iconic Corpse is a bit of a tall tale.
Added 2018-07-27 16:58:01 +0000 UTCHello deathlings!
This is the first Iconic Corpse we've done where the corpse in the MIDST of CONTROVERSY.
Charles Byrne is the star of the Hunterian Museum's collection. But what if he didn't want to be? Wildly didn't want to be? Went to great lengths not to be? And yet here we are...
This brings up all kinds of important questions. What rights do people have over their bodies after death? The law in many places says "not much."
We have this conversation often with regards to indigenous remains in a museum. But what if there aren't family groups left wanting his return, just a dude 235 years ago who really really made his wishes clear and they were violated?
Today is the Hunterian Museum still complicit in body snatching or just looking back on a bad thing that happened a long time ago with their hand's clean?
Ok that's maybe too many questions to answer so I'm going to slow down but I'm interested.
Not to add to the QUESTIONS, but I'd love to do a themed livestream. Maybe bring someone on, like Amber my funeral director at Undertaking LA? (I haven't asked her about this yet muahahahhaahha.) Thoughts?
Talk soon, deathling dears!
xx
Caitlin
