• What product was once made from ground-up mummies?
Why would a wallet cost 14 thousand dollars?
Prepare your stomachs, because here are 15 things made from parts of actual human beings.
15 – The Sedlec Ossuary • This place is better known as the “Church
of Bones.
You can probably see why.
• It dates back to when it was a 12th-century monastery in the Czech Republic, but the current
arrangement of bones was only commissioned in 1870.
• The church contains the remains of about 40 thousand people, and the chandelier is
made from at least one of every bone in the human body.
14 – Leather • The people who make human leather say
it’s perfectly legal because it comes from voluntary donors, who donate their skin just
as an organ donor would.
• The question is, should it be?
No wait, there’s a better question.
• Who is buying the 14 thousand dollar wallet made from human skin?
• Supposedly human leather is exceptionally high quality, but… it’s HUMAN SKIN.
13 – Tooth Jewelry • Forget diamonds and pearls.
It’s time for bling made out of teeth.
• Except that they’re kind of horrifying.
And ugly.
• But while a set of toothy brass knuckles may not be the most necessary set of jewelry,
you have to admit it would suck to get hit by them.
12 – Fuel from Fat • One of the problems with liposuction is
figuring out how to deal with the waste.
• It’s literally sucking fat out of a human’s body, so what do you do with it
then?
• Well, some people have figured out it would be a good idea to make biodiesel fuel
from it.
And this is actually a feasible fuel option, if it were widely adopted.
It’s not like we don’t have enough fat.
11 – A Tiananmen Square Model • If you grow your hair out enough, you
can donate it when you get it cut.
• Alternatively, you can go to this guy, and have him make models of famous buildings.
• And now that he’s perfected the art of sculpting discarded hair, he wants to start
making portraits of his clients out of hair.
10 – Books • Hey, we’re back to human leather.
Only now it’s not some shady company in the UK making belts and wallets.
• It’s a huge portion of Europe, making book bindings up until the 19th century.
• This was such a common practice, books with human skin bindings are still being discovered
in historical libraries all over the world.
9 – Stool Transplants • It’s called fecal microbiota transplantation.
• It’s a medical procedure in which you get a treatment made from someone else’s
shit, to make your shit healthier.
• And it works.
Some people don’t have a certain type of bacteria that helps keep your bowels moving
normally.
• But that’s really beside the point.
It’s… it’s a SHIT TRANSPLANT. 8 – Gelatin
• Science is about to make us all unintentional cannibals.
• Apparently there is a way to add human DNA to gelatin to make it more stable, safer,
and capable of mass-production.
At least that’s what they say.
• It’s not like people have to die to make it, but we may soon be looking at Jell-O
made from human DNA… so enjoy!
7 – Blood Sculptures • Marc Quinn gives blood regularly.
He gives it to himself.
For art.
• It takes five months for him to have enough blood as he needs extracted without killing
himself.
• And when he gets it, he makes these: blood sculptures.
This one is a mold of his own head.
Filled with his extracted blood.
6 – Sunglasses • These look like regular sunglasses, but
they’re made from human hair.
• Why?
How?
Don’t sweat the small stuff.
• The frames are made of hair so as to be completely biodegradable, but the lenses are
normal.
And honestly, you’d never really know by looking at them.
5 – Masato • Ancient cultures around the world figured
out something very important about developing alcohol.
• Saliva helps things ferment into alcohol much faster.
• Masato is a South American drink from Colombia and Peru that is made from chewed
up and spit out yuca plant.
• Supposedly it’s really good, if you like to have someone spit alcohol in your
mouth.
4 – Paint • There’s a shade of paint known as mummy
brown, and it really just looks like a normal brown.
• But historically, the name “mummy brown” is taken quite literally.
It was historically made from ground up mummies.
• “Mummy brown” is still a color you can find today, but obviously it’s not made
from ground up human remains anymore.
3 – Household Items • This is sort of broad, but it should be.
Making tools out of human bones is something people did regularly throughout time.
• From weapons to kitchen utensils, people even dating back to Neanderthals crafted tools
out of human remains – often deceased family members.
2 – Fertility Drugs • There are a number of drugs that helps
with fertility.
Many help women conceive or carry children easier.
• Some even help with the male side of fertility.
• And many of them are made with urine.
Human urine.
Specifically, the urine of post-menopausal women.
• In fact, some of the earliest versions of these drugs were made from gallons of urine
collected from old nuns.
This was, of course, all done with the Pope’s blessing.
1 – The Apex Predator • Forget a piece of jewelry, or a belt,
or some sunglasses.
How about an entire suit made from human products?
• We’re talking about a suit made from human hair, shoes lined with dentures for
the soles, even glass eyes.
• It’s a statement about humans being at the top of the food chain… somehow?
• Really, it’s just a weird suit-slash-art piece that’s for people who, for whatever
reason, feel like they want to wear a suit made
out of people.