Some of nation’s best libraries have books bound in human skin

eyewitnessnewstv.com ^ | 1/7/06 | AP

[Marie]

Here's what I'd like to be done with my body after I die:

Organs donated
My skin could be given to my cousin to be tanned, then passed on to my friend who does book-binding as a hobby
My skull can be lined with silver and turned into a goblet (I think i would a cute addition to weddings! Flip it over and it's a candle holder!)
The rest is should be donated to a body farm
When their done with it, it can be cremated and the ashes pressed into diamonds...

Waste not, want not! And the family gets a few nice conversation pieces.

Kid-ding! (Except about the organs, body farm and diamond part...) Honestly, I think it's honorable to salvage as much of a body as possible. My life may be average, but my death can be interesting.

[GSlob]

"My shoes have always been in bad shape"
In 16th century one Rabelais wrote of Gargantua's shoes which were made from the skins of vampires. Nowadays the lawyers' pelts should suffice. Nothing's better than a hallowed old tradition.

[dalereed]

"I have first dibs on Michael Moore's skin - when the time comes, of course."

With the current obesity book covers are getting cheaper by the day. Moore's skin won't be a prize within another year.

[Zeroisanumber]

But if the Nazis kill people without permission because they are curious how long people will live when they are cold and wet, they do not have the consent or permission of their victims, and I don't think it does the victims any honor to use the results of this Nazi research. The research is tainted.

Would you say that the same is true of medical breakthroughs that have resulted from corpses stolen from cemetaries? Or anatomical research done on the corpses of the poor or executed criminals?

[moog]

LOL -- perfectly fitting on THIS thread -- LOL!! Your comments have me thinking about watching Silence of the Lambs tonight. He he he!!

That is just one movie I haven't been able to "stomach" yet.

[tongue-tied]

Oh wow...you are one sick chick. And I like that!

Maybe they fed the meat to the poor people that cannot pay their library fees? I'm not sure. Poor people need to read too, plus they get food, and THEN if they expire they can become book wraps. Cool!

[moog]

Ever hear of Elizabeth Bathory?

[moog]

Wonder what they did with the meat?

Leftover meat is pretty rare there.

[moog]

Nothing's better than a hallowed old tradition.

Wonder if they could make hallowheat.

[rwfromkansas]

I find this hard to believe, but I guess it must be true.

[rwfromkansas]

You could make 10000 books out of his skin.

[GSlob]

Any relation of Ishtvan/Stephen Bathory? He's the only Bathory I've heard about.

[Marie]

If I were murdered and useful scientific information could be gained from my untimely death, I'd be irritated that people let my death be in vain due to squeamishness.

But that's just me.

[moog]

Maybe, this lady killed over 800 young girls because she thought that bathing in their blood kept her younger. She was some Noblewoman somewhere long ago.

[Marie]

I hope the scrapbooking people don't take it up anytime soon.

Ow, ow, OW!! Beer *up* the nose!

[festus]

While human leather may be repulsive to contemporary society, libraries can ethically have the books in their collections if they are used respectfully for academic research and not displayed as objects of curiosity, says Paul Wolpe of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania.

Does the same also apply to lampshades ? I don't care how you slice it this is gross.

Fot the record the only thing I've ever wanted made of human skin was a geniune pair of Talibanhide boots.

[Trajan88]

Soylent Green books are people!

Ahhhhhh.

[moog]

Ow, ow, OW!! Beer *up* the nose!

Why? Can you picture it?:)

[teenyelliott]

There has got to be a one-eyed-one-horned flying purple people eater joke here somewhere.

[teenyelliott]

Where? I didn't really read the story. I was just drive by posting.