Book Bound In Human Skin

[PiSquare]

Harvard's Houghton Library for rare books and manuscripts recently confirmed that it is in possession of a book bound in human skin. The book entitled "Des destinées de l'ame" (Destinies of the Soul), was a gift to a medical doctor named Ludovic Bouland in the mid-1880's, who proceeded to bind the book with skin from the unclaimed body of a female mental patient who died of a stroke. View a picture of the book here.

[Alex358]

At first I was completely repelled by the idea. But the explanation of a book about the human soul "deserving a human cover" KIND OF makes sense to me. Only "kind of". And it's still creepy.

[PiSquare]

I felt exactly the same, Alex. Initially I though the doctor who covered the book with human skin should have be charged with mutilation of a body, but after I read the full article I figured that he probably thought it was a means of 'giving life' to the book.  

[Gregb]

Very creepy! Not sure I could handle the book.

[ErlyRisa]

Body mutilation: who cares, unless you loved the body as it was, while it is alive.

 

Body mutilation should be a co-operative effort between loving parties, not something for the live to play with on the dead.

 

If the dead, as per, knowing of thier demise,, are in someway convinced that thier mortality can be fixed via the creativity of another, and that knownst of the future situation is in full agreement. Then hey: OK. Do it, maybe the dying could live with a smile on thier face.]

 

...but make sure that the living are in full behest that they could not do all that is in thier power to have acoompanied that should, in imemoriam of the action that took place.

 

ie. LIVE WITH IT

 

There are worse things, like removing that which is the sould of a person infront of thier eyes, and making sure that they have to live with that throughout eternity: SOUL-LESS.

-->a much worse demise. and many a left winger greenwitch lowlife does that to thier bretherent everyday.

 

...not only do "we" westerners do it too the meek, we have and "IN finality" procured the state for ourselves, in effect again turning to the bible to find solice in what once was stable, and humble procurement of wht is "happiness".

 

ie FU

[Celestia]

I felt exactly the same, Alex. Initially I though the doctor who covered the book with human skin should have be charged with mutilation of a body, but after I read the full article I figured that he probably thought it was a means of 'giving life' to the book.  

 

Totally agree with you PiSquare. It feels very odd to experience the different things that go through me when I read about the book. But honestly, I actually get it on some weird level. Not sure I would tell too many people that though. ;)