After he removes the leg from his body, is it still considered part of him? What if he (the owner of the leg) butchers and cooks it, so that there’s no chance of it being reattached?
This, at least, isn’t very far from an actual funeral practice.
[
](http://www.nps.gov/knri/teach/history.htm)My point being, I suppose, that it would be impossible to define ‘desecration’ without stepping on someone’s toes, culturally speaking.
The biggest unanswered questions here are these: Who owns a corpse, and what restrictions exist on what the owner of a corpse can do with it?