# Where can I legally procure a human skull?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 12, 2003, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-legally-procure-a-human-skull/188036 "2003-07-12T20:57:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-legally-procure-a-human-skull/188036/21 "2003-07-17T03:28:17Z")

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> Forget donating your body to science. Can you leave your body/skeleton to your family?

Believe it or not, not only have we already had a [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=80404) about this question, but it made Threadspotting.

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**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-legally-procure-a-human-skull/188036/22 "2003-07-17T06:41:05Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Doctordec \*  
> \*\*Take a look on Ebay. Plenty of real skulls up for auction. \*\*

Not just skulls either; how about a [mummified human head](http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2544052172&category=1210)?

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**Author:** ![easy\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb8c5e/32.png) [@easy\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/easy_e)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-legally-procure-a-human-skull/188036/23 "2003-07-17T14:57:31Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Colibri \*  
> \*\*According to [this article](http://archive.salon.com/health/feature/2000/08/28/skeleton/), it isn’t all that straightforward to donate your skeleton.  
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[hijack]  
You know, I think I’ve read that before. In fact, the memory of reading such an article prompted my post. But I thought that I read it in paper form, in a weekly Madison magazine called The Isthmus (which doesn’t archive their articles online).

But then, since the author lives in Milwaukee, maybe it was in The Isthmus, and it was sold to [Salon.com](http://Salon.com)? Or I could be totally off-base.  
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