A) Funeral, casket and burial, or B) Get myself taxidermied ?

  • SwearingRobin@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    Just in case you’re serious, taxidermy is not a good option if you want a faithful representation of how you look like. Taxidermy often results in not exactly the same look something had when they where living because replicating exactly the bones and cartilage to put the skin over is not easy.

    This is OK for some random wild animal you don’t care about representing the individual it once was, but for pets it usually results in unsatisfactory results, and for people it’s just very uncanny because our brains are very good with human faces.

    • FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.worldOP
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      8 days ago

      Thanks. That’s kind of you and I appreciate it. I was being humorous but I did start to wonder if would make a comically gruesome feature for a funeral.

      We decided not to get a pet taxidermied in the past for the same reason you mentioned.

      Thanks again for being so decent.