I wouldnt mind if my femur is used as the first club when when the comet hits and that big black obelisk comes down around a bunch of neo-chimps and they learn to use weapons.
I think most human skeletons sold by supply houses (the real ones anyway, resin replicas are much cheaper and more common today) have traditionally been obtained from India. Custom there favors cremation of bodies and the scattering of their ashes in the Ganges, but a fair number of families can’t afford a thorough cremation job, and many merely-singed bodies thus end up in the Ganges, providing a supply of bones for resourceful scavangers. I also seem to recall hearing that there has been some religious opposition to this in India of late.
Here in the States, the disposition of bodies is subject to state and local laws and ordinances, frequently influenced by lobbying morticians over the years to require embalming. I’m sure that if you do some research, though, you’ll find there are some localities (probably in rural, western, god-fearin’ and gun-lovin’ states) where you could legally arrange for a taxidermist to clean and polish your noggin. Make sure everything is worked out in your will in advance, though, and that your attorney and/or executor are fully briefed. It’d be a real pain to try to work out all the details once after you’re dead and waiting.
“You mounted your father’s skull inside a bowling ball?”
“Nah, the guy at the pro shop did it.”
I’m not sure if this will help, but:
There was a guy( i don’t know his name) who had surgery to remove his something that wasn’t functioning properly and the doctor noticed that it was abnormally growing so he cut it up, sold it, and made millions. The guy found out and sued the doctor, but lost because the court ruled that anything taken out by a doctor is “legally the property of the surgoen who romoved it” but since the doctor didn’t tell the man, he got half of the money. so i don’t really think that your skull is your property, maybe whoever buries you gets to keep it, I dunno.
Did you mean it’s a good idea for the use of one’s skull, or do you think that’s an actual skull? Since it’s a picture from the movie Mystery Men, I’m positive it’s not an actual skull, but in the movie it’s supposed to be.
Concerning what you can and cannot do with your skull after you die, I know that human parts cost a lot of money to buy (say, for a demonstration in an anatomy class) but you can get them. I found a website that sells human skeletons (fully articulated) for $5000, which seems a rip if you can get them for $5000 Australian, but maybe it’s a site from Oz and I didn’t notice? (www.einsteinsemporium.com/science/human-anatomy/sh217.htm)
I particularly like the carrying case for your valuable human skull. 
Also, I read an article a while back that said that schools were hurting for human skeletons to demonstrate on, because apparently the resin ones just aren’t as good. They don’t have the right texture or heft. I say donate your entire body to a local med school looking for a human skeleton, with a stipulation that that is what your bones will be used for. Alternatively, you could go to the cadaver lab to be cut up in Gross. I’ve heard that students are very grateful to have bodies, and treat them nicely. (Movie representations aside.)
Good luck regardless.
I can only speak for the biology teacher I knew, but I think it was because he lived so close to the nuclear plant.
On the whole, we are, and on the whole, we do. 
I’ve spent lots of time as a med student dissecting other people’s bodies, and although there is occasional joking around and (god forbid!) laughter in the dissecting room, I’ve never seen anything that would put me off donating my own body after I’m gone. Medical schools and anatomy departments ALWAYS need more cadavers; less and less people seem to be donating their bodies nowadays, and more and more people are wanting to train as doctors. If you would like to think of your body being put to good use when you’re no longer around, james77, I would strongly suggest that you consider this.
I have a friend who found (and bought) a human skull from a store called “The Bone Room” in Berkeley, CA. I have no idea how much it cost. It lives in a little velvet-lined box with some documentation to the effect that it was obtained legally (i.e. without an axe).
But here’s my idea: If my skull is worth a bunch of money to someone after I’m dead, and presumably my entire skeleton is worth even more, I should stipulate in my will that they be suitably prepared, and then either kept by my family, or sold for profit if they’d prefer. They wouldn’t have to buy a coffin or a burial plot, either. I imagine the preperation is expensive, but as long as it’s less than the result is worth, it seems like a good idea.
Well, there you have it. NEW HUMAN SKULL SHIPMENT!
galt:
Why do I get images of a human skeleton in a glass case (in that floating position, you know the one) at the end of a dark hallway, scaring the living bejeesus out of some poor rugrat there on vacation? 
Maybe painted up with glow-in-the-dark paint for special occasions, when it is trotted out like some relic. Hell, my family would do it!
And speaking of relics, can a religious group legally own human body fragments if it claims they are of religious significance? Because maybe people who want their bodies hanging around their homes (Maybe stuffed and posed in favorite postions, maybe just lying around . . . ;)) could create religions just so the government doesn’t get all nosey when the amount of deadweight lying around the house goes up.
(Ah, I can just imagine the Far Side comics possible. “Now be quiet, or I’ll resurrect Gramps!” :D)