# Why don't taxidermists stuff people? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 10, 2000, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-taxidermists-stuff-people/40553 "2000-11-10T00:18:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2000, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-taxidermists-stuff-people/40553/1 "2000-11-10T00:18:39Z")
More of an aha type question. But hey, it would be so cool to have the family around forever. ---
**Author:** ![yabob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yabob/32/2821_2.png) [@yabob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yabob)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2000, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-taxidermists-stuff-people/40553/2 "2000-11-10T00:37:48Z")
I remember as an adolescent thinking it would be cool to be stuffed and mounted when I died. I was very disappointed to find that Jeremy Bentham had beaten me to it. Anyway, if you wished to emulate his example, you would probably run into legal difficulties these days. Apparently, it was illegal in Bentham’s day, too, but got done anyway (though not by taxidermists): [http://www.findagrave.com/pictures/3365.html](http://www.findagrave.com/pictures/3365.html) ---
**Author:** ![steve17098](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@steve17098](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steve17098)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2000, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-taxidermists-stuff-people/40553/3 "2000-11-10T01:23:46Z")
its illegal ---
**Author:** ![SouprChckn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f9b8f/32.png) [@SouprChckn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SouprChckn)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2000, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-taxidermists-stuff-people/40553/4 "2000-11-10T02:42:57Z")
Illegal and freaky. If I want to remember a dead guy, I’ll take a picture. And not a picture of him dead either, a nice living picture. I mean, imagine of all of a sudden, the world was overtaken by a zombie curse. You’d have one in your house! ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2000, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-taxidermists-stuff-people/40553/5 "2000-11-10T03:45:01Z")
Well, there was always Lenin… 'course, that was embalming rather than taxiderming, but same principle. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2000, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-taxidermists-stuff-people/40553/6 "2000-11-10T03:50:21Z")
Hey, I’ll ask my Dad… ---
**Author:** ![Deimos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Deimos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deimos)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2000, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-taxidermists-stuff-people/40553/7 "2000-11-10T04:12:14Z")
mtv’s new series “JACKASS” recently aired a segment with my new very own personal hero Johnny Knoxville going to a few different taxidermist places and trying to get his grandmother stuffed. the first place wouldn’t do it, but the other place said it would run about 20k. anyone wanna bet that the 'dermist wouldn’t give a receipt?