Meet The TikToker Selling Human Bones Online
If you've ever wanted to buy a human skull, good news: there are websites happy to sell you one. But where do the bones come from? VICE News' Dexter Thomas met with a TikToker who runs a business based on human remains.
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They should've mentioned how Princeton has been using the bones belonging to two young victims of the police bombing of MOVE & refuse to give them back to the families. Maybe more attention brought to that situation would help bring those girls to the final resting place they deserve.
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Жыл бұрын
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@milesjerashen2708
Жыл бұрын
@@user-yz4lr4oy4d what?
@69Emoji
Жыл бұрын
This guys mentally broken. So are the people buying them
@liveandloud9687
Жыл бұрын
Wow no way? Thats horrible.
@jlee5821
Жыл бұрын
@@liveandloud9687 kzread.info/dash/bejne/lpV82dmJmdDVdZs.html @ 4:25 & now they claim to not know where they are.
It's kinda scary that someone can think they're donating their body to some university for students to learn but then it is sold and goes all around the country and ends up in some person's house as a showpiece.
@sharondanya
Жыл бұрын
So sad
@josiewalker7012
Жыл бұрын
I'm totally cool with that. It's just a shell. Plus, it would be kinda neat to be a treasured showpiece in someone's home. 🤷 I always have a hard time understanding why people get so weird about things like this.
@forpspeakingclass4444
Жыл бұрын
@@josiewalker7012 Your cool with signing up ur body to be studied but ends up in a house for the owners to show their friends/family?
@MrMountainchris
Жыл бұрын
Why? You'll be dead. You won't care, I promise.
@kaseysewick1691
Жыл бұрын
@@forpspeakingclass4444 they said they are. They said they’d be cool having someone treasure their vessel in whatevr way. They didn’t say they were doing bad things to it. I’m sure a home with people desecrating the vessel would be much different but half the science programs you promise it to wouldn’t be the kindest with it I’m sure anyway either. This actually kinda made me more a little willing to switch to donating.
The way he wears his clothes looks exactly like what a character from a game who has interest in bones looks like
@BigBrolls
Жыл бұрын
He could indeed use some new bones to replace the ones he has currently.
@bumfuk
Жыл бұрын
Rolled up jacket sleeves should be a crime
@uesikon
Жыл бұрын
looks like richard ramirez with better teeth
@Bradedfacemeat
Жыл бұрын
@@uesikon THAT'S who he reminds me of. That was bugging me, thanks.
@nicosfutureson4450
Жыл бұрын
Bros whole Aura is straight 🌽
"But here at Johns bones" He knows He is the only person that works there 🤣
@MotheRuckerlove
Жыл бұрын
😂
@Wrinkls
Жыл бұрын
I might be giving him too much credit, but it could be a riff off the “Have you seen the bones of John?” song I saw in a Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.
@alexandriawagner6665
Жыл бұрын
HE KEPT SAYING “WE”. LIKE DUDE ITS JUST YOU
@Kimmie9553
Жыл бұрын
@@alexandriawagner6665 actually, it isn’t. I’ve seen multiple videos that covers this guy and he legitimately has a whole team working on it! When I heard about this originally at least a year ago, he had 4-5 other people working for him. I think they have just wanted to distance themselves publicly due to the backlash
@CoCreation.with.Qualia
Жыл бұрын
People really have no idea how businesses work, hey? He can obviously afford to have a lil team
When someone donates something, that item shouldn't end up in a for-profit business end of story. The person never donated their remains to be put in a 22yo tiktoker's apartment as a means for making him money
@rebeccathompsun1238
Жыл бұрын
Precisely…at the end when he said, “I have to pay rent somehow” I was stunned at the ignorance. We are so desensitized to certain things. So sad truky
@Tlahuiltezcatl
Жыл бұрын
It's not his fault descendants of bone owners don't know what to do with what they inherited
@TheWobblyQueen
Жыл бұрын
Apartments haunted with piss off ghosts. “👻 this is bullshit, I wanted my body to go to the university for science, I said so on my death bed” Now I’m here watching this Brooklyn Burke Toss off & drink crap craft beer.
@mayson_meroney
Жыл бұрын
Wait what about goodwill - I -
@ddrums95
Жыл бұрын
FACTS
“Everyone’s gotta pay rent” He can’t get behind burying them with respect, because he already views it as a commodity. Sad. The crazy thing is when I was in anatomy class, the professor said all the figures were actual bones because they were cheaper than the replicas at that point. In the movie Poltergeist, those are real bones, the director said the same thing. Bones from India were cheaper than buying a replica. My question as far as legality, it seems that possessing any type of bone is legal, but what about an eyeball? A heart, a lung? A man in PA was just arrested for this because he collected and sold human remains on FB marketplace. So my question is, where does the law begin and end on this?
@yaoreivashi9971
Жыл бұрын
Right, its confusing because there's these other guy with tattoo's on his face and eyeball, who's prosecuted for the same reason. The law and legal system in US is confusing at time.
@dmoore3306
Жыл бұрын
That is an out-of-context response. The two men spoke on respect etc., way before they even discussed the business aspect of it. Do you also forget his questions about what to do with the remains? If you say "nothing," then they will eventually get destroyed or buried naturally or through the modernization of society due to things like construction. Any answer more than "nothing" leads to conflict and or destruction of these remains. Do you think museums obtained their artifacts ethically? No. But yet, we still enjoy them because of the human connection, and it gives up an academic look at the past. And yes, his company should make some money from his logistical service. But do you also vet all of the items you use daily? Because many of them have been tied to unethical practices and atrocities. Because unfortunately, we live in a society where you have to make money to access ANY of society's resources, from essential companionship to healthcare.
@carrielopez1728
Жыл бұрын
My daughter just had her wisdom teeth out yesterday and she is a funeral directress with a dark sense of humor and decor sense. She asked if she could keep her own teeth and they would not allow it. I thought that was kinda absurd considering they are hers in the first place.
@Adogtard
Жыл бұрын
You're just like the guy in the interview. You can make haughty statements but you have no solution and will do nothing about it. Stay mad.
@dmoore3306
Жыл бұрын
@@Adogtard bingo.
Even if you donate your body to science it is entirely possible that your body will end up being sold to some shady company or somewhere else. A man donated his body to a local hospital and it ended up in a weapons test of the us military i.e. sold by the hospital. So the person in the video is doing exactly the same as "ethical" companies that take donations.
@steph7960
Жыл бұрын
I actually officially donated my body to science on my death a number of years back but have since changed my mind due to stories such as this. Far too many grey areas ripe for being exploited.
@sahilnagpalx
Жыл бұрын
Some guy was put up in a public show where his body was cut into by rich guys who paid for that "experience".
@steph7960
Жыл бұрын
@@sahilnagpalx not sure why they d purchase a dead human? They do this to the living " for fun".
@GardeninGrace
Жыл бұрын
@@steph7960 I’m sitting here thinking “does this dude have my great aunt Evelyn?” ☠️
@k.3004
Жыл бұрын
@@sahilnagpalx what show was this
He kinda sidestepped the obvious that most people who want real bones are only interested in the fact they're real. As an anatomy student I would rather have fake bones then the worry about taking them home to study would be gone.
@tome8373
Жыл бұрын
Yes. I want a grown man’s skull in my living room. I want to think of the things that were seen, said, heard, and smelled, by the man.
Dude said “ I don’t believe in hoarding “. Camera man “ pointing to the entire collections “ 😂
@jesuslover5968
Жыл бұрын
Yea it’s not really hoarding when it’s a business
@Spicynoodle2.0
Жыл бұрын
I think he meant there is a difference between stock and hoarding.
Eh, when I'm dead, I won't have any use for my bones anyway. It is not like my bones constitute what I am as a living person. After I die, there is just the memories of me until they also fade into oblivion.
@astridhurtarte8231
Жыл бұрын
This 👌🏽
Your born You go to school You go to college You find your dream job You fall in love You get married You have kids You retire and enjoy your later years You get to see your grandkids You die YOU END UP ON THE WALL OF A 22 YEAR OLDS APARTMENT BEING PROMOTED ON TIKTOK
@kevjtnbtmglr
Жыл бұрын
I'd argue that "you" is not what skeleton remains of you is left.
@Moonchild1607
Жыл бұрын
You definitely will. 😅
@Kremit_the_Forg
Жыл бұрын
"The circle of liiiiiiife" 🎶
@dragoon260
Жыл бұрын
Lol when I die I literally wouldn't care whatever happens to my corps nor name
@janinewetzler5037
Жыл бұрын
Alright, sign me up. I'm good with this end.
The progression from animal to human is like a serial killer
@annamorgan5909
Жыл бұрын
😆 I caught that too lol
@Kevin-mz3gp
Жыл бұрын
omg
@HazeGreyAndUnderway
Жыл бұрын
Dahmer-esque for sure.
@carolinaelichalt7913
Жыл бұрын
Very jeffrey dahmer
@aporue5893
Жыл бұрын
it's not your'e being weird.He wants to teach people anatomy.
I actually wrote my college thesis on this very subject. I entitled it " Fighting for the humanity in classroom bones: history of anatomical specimens" This is a huge problem in universities and museums. Not even to mention private collectors. These bones were collected from essentially graves of poor people. Usually people of color and immigrants. In fact, there are records of slave owners selling the bodies of their slaves after they passed to medical schools. Not even to mention all of the human remains that were stolen from native American grave sites and taken as wardrophies during the genocide of native peoples in the United States. It deeply disturbs me that we can sell human bodies that were not freely given by the people who once occupied them. By still capitalizing on these people's bodies, It's perpetuating, the racist and horribly unjust system that allowed them to be taken in the first place.
@_srvm9
Жыл бұрын
I would love to read your college thesis
@Aaron565
Жыл бұрын
if they were slaves its acceptable to sell their remains, the only immoral source would be graverobbing but since you cant discern source you must accept they are all ethical. you have no reasonable claim for example, that anything shown in the video was "unethical" also there was no systematic "genocide of native peoples" this is not australia. read more history.
@DeclanJMcCabe
Жыл бұрын
@@Aaron565 Certainly read more history: Achulet, Acoma, Acteal, Battle Creek, Bridge Gulch etc etc....seems pretty systematic to me. And do you seriously believe that it is acceptable to buy and sell the bones of slaves? Perhaps I'm misunderstanding you?
@sandyrodriguez2803
Жыл бұрын
Yes, well said. There is no way a sane human, with some financial resources, would willingly part ways with human bones of someone they love.
@UserName_no1
Жыл бұрын
@@Aaron565 "if they were slaves it's acceptable to sell their remains..."🤨 Pray tell, on what premise might that be? The immoral one that the slaves were property prior to their demise? I guess if you had no respect for them when they were alive there'd be no need for dignity afterwards, huh?🤔 When one donates their body to medical science it's assumed that the remains will be treated with respect and dignity. Not distributed for profit on some morbid market. ""...also there was no systematic "genocide of native people's" this isn't Australia"". You most assuredly aren't making that statement from a US point of view. Because they unwittingly committed genocide wiping out a third of the indigenous population by introducing them to European diseases like chicken pox and measles. But then they would go on to "systematically" drive them out of they hunting grounds to the most inhospitable land on the continent, and in the process decimate another third. The man who committed the most henious of these acts was Andrew Jackson. So who just took you to history class?🧐
I hope my Bones won't be sold to pay someone's Electricity Bills.
@liagenzy
Жыл бұрын
Why? That’s just a layover til you end up in someone’s office on a wall. I’d rather them than end up getting chewed On by an animal. Not like he’s getting rich off it, I’d argue he treats his inventory with respect & pride
@slickman5969
Жыл бұрын
who cares youll be dead
@statementpeace
Жыл бұрын
@@liagenzy being chewed by animals or rotting in the earth is not that bad, lol. I’ve always viewed it as beautiful, it’s the circle of life; giving back to the Earth. Dust to dust.
@c0gimyun
Жыл бұрын
@@liagenzy i think bones have a higher chance of being chewed on by an animal when above ground..... you could argue about respect if he gave a flying f who those bones came from.
@Chromeape
Жыл бұрын
Probably will tbh
Its gross to think my loved ones and my own bones will possibly end up being sold on this market because we marked ourselves as organ donors. I also read a story about a woman's remains being sold to a military company to test a rocket on...gross
Dudes acting like he's trying to get by but he clearly has money. Said he had half a mil minimum sitting in that room and then says he's gotta pay the rent hahaha
He literally said this was his way of paying rent lmao.
@mth4849
Жыл бұрын
So what? It's legal... its not like selling drugs to addicts.
@nocheapdopamine725
Жыл бұрын
@@mth4849 youre right selling drugs to addicts is more ethical
@jonathanmagana3389
Жыл бұрын
@@mth4849 People really be believing they're so important after dead, lol. Just sell my bones! Pay that roof, man! Buy yourself a nice house! Hell, I already lived my life, no need to be so pressed about bones when you're dead.
@when_life_gives_you_limes
Жыл бұрын
@@mth4849 just because something is legal doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.
@Zero.0ne.
Жыл бұрын
exactly. blew himself to pieces with that comment.
If i donate my body for science, I would rather be cremated than end up in a collectors house.
@mth4849
Жыл бұрын
You probably will be after they are finished with your body.
I get it, we need to be able to study anatomy but, it should only be able to come from people who donate The Remains, Not from some person who selling some someone they don't even know about.
@TheWobblyQueen
Жыл бұрын
Skeletons don’t really change, theirs no need for a real skull unless it’s for carbon dating & dna comparisons. Any class room can suffice with a replica. Diseased & fractured bones can easily be mocked up, there’s no reason for this anymore after over 300 years of study.
@RolleiPollei
Жыл бұрын
@@TheWobblyQueen there are still plenty of reasons to study actual bones as we do not know everything about the human body. An example is the study of cancers that originate in the bones such as myelomaand leukemia and the drugs that treat it cannot be studied in plastic bones. The majority of people however don't need real bones and there are plenty of high quality replicas that are perfect for most classroom applications or just sticking on your shelf if that's what your into.
@shantellee3308
Жыл бұрын
@@RolleiPollei very true. I work with human cadavers in school and the education we get is incomparable to only being able to use plastic replicas. I believe that anyone in or who has been through any type of medical school would agree. However, the bodies were ethically obtained from people who wished to donate their bodies to science and we are very respectful and even hold ceremonies when we are done with the bodies to thank them for their contribution. We also work with and study human bones and specimens which were collected from these cadavers normally when they have some type of abnormality that the teachers feels would be beneficial for other students and classes to study. When dealing with human remains it is so important for these things to be done in the most ethical and respectful way possible. It is a very misinformed statement the person you were responding to made that bones don't change and there is not need for actual human remains to be studied
@RolleiPollei
Жыл бұрын
@@shantellee3308 back as an undergrad I used to help prepare slides for a histology lab which would include human bones and other tissues. These days I work in paleontology studying plant fossils so these kind of ethical issues aren't a problem. I wish you luck in medical school if that's what your in. I'm glad I decided not to apply because I would have been a terrible doctor. Plants are more my speed these days.
@jayhutchinson6644
Жыл бұрын
Grave robber
I thought this was illegal. I remember watching a show on Netflix YEARS ago about an oddities shop.. and anything with actual human remains they weren’t legally allowed to buy or sell. Idk if there’s ways around that or if the laws have changed… or if bones are a different story but.. I always thought it was illegal.
@DeclanJMcCabe
Жыл бұрын
Generally not illegal. Some states like Louisiana and Georgia have laws, but mostly not.
@mill2712
10 ай бұрын
3:35
My dad wanted to be a classroom skeleton and was told no.
@bashmeesh
Жыл бұрын
😂
This seems sketchy AF. I sure as hell wouldn’t want MY remains in some person’s apartment and being sold to someone else I don’t know. Seems violating 🤔😬
I’ve never heard someone so excited to say “here is my spine wall. It’s my wall. Of spines”
@utubepunk
Жыл бұрын
Sub-zero approves.
I'm fine with my body going to science and whatnot but I'm not ok with my bones winding up like this. Once it's done with the purpose it was used for, put me in the ground or something, at least have that respect for my body. A lot of bodies that wind up being traded like this are sadly not legitimate. Hell, I'm almost inspired to start a non-profit that buys whatever bones I can just to put them to rest. What should happen currently is that any bones which provenance can't be 100% given as legal should be surrendered and put to rest because there's just too many remains out there which were disturbed from their rest. Though I'm not a religious person, I still feel people should be respected. After we do a full wipe across the sector, we can start again, hell it's a good thing because the prices will skyrocket and that's a good thing.
@Captain__Obvious
Жыл бұрын
You're imposing your own beliefs on other people's remains who chose to donate their bodies and are long dead either way. What's the difference from human remains in museums?
@Snitram19
Жыл бұрын
@@Captain__Obvious Did you actually watch the video? Many of the remains come from people who didn't choice at all. And even the ones who have choosen to donate their body, they donated it to science to help humanity move forward and not to private collecters to show them on tiktok and sell them for profit .
@TheTonialadd
Жыл бұрын
Burying a body is extremely bad for pollution. From the embalming chemicals in the body to the chemicals in the morgue. The amount of toxic chemicals is exorbitant for just one body. Not to mention the waste of land for a cemetery. We need to be more environmentally conscious. I never have understood what makes a person think they’re so important after death.
@ageoffantasybuilds6012
Жыл бұрын
Don't start a business to buy and bury the bones. It will only increase the profits of the people selling them to you and will make them increase their bone obtaining operations even more. There's countless other examples where this has lead to the same effect, from people buying and destroying drugs, illegal plants or ivory. The only way to decrease the amount of buyers by educating the public and political bans.
@lucybrown8902
Жыл бұрын
@@TheTonialadd well that’s based on the assumption that bodies are embalmed. In Britain almost nobody is embalmed, so no toxic chemicals in cemeteries
Vice : Where does the bodies come from? JonBones : its usually inherited by the people...and body donated for medical educations and scientific research Me : Erm....They come from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, philipines and etc...
@karenishness1
Жыл бұрын
Falun Gong practitioners from China.
@janinewetzler5037
Жыл бұрын
Well, yes, so....seriously, if you got them all together and shipped them off, I believe the Philippines is one of those countries where burial plots are only leased...then who pays the rent on that?
@insanicmironic
Жыл бұрын
@@karenishness1 Falun Gong? What is that, i need to research about this
@dsnodgrass4843
Жыл бұрын
@@insanicmironic it's a cult the Chinese government really hates, for obscure reasons. Woo-woo meditation stuff, mostly. But the regime hates and fears it like the Bug.
@dsnodgrass4843
Жыл бұрын
With about 3 steps and several decades in between. Where most records have long since gone to ashes. How's your research skills? Good luck.
I took an osteology class when I was in college back in 2010 . We studied actual human bones that had been donated.
Some people have skeletons in their closet. Other people have skeletons in every room of their house. Those people are probably on an FBI watch list.
@mill2712
10 ай бұрын
They probably want to know the company so they can get some too. The FBI is an organization who would have a perfectly good reason to own human remains.
He’s unethically acquiring human bones and then sells them
@lavenderlatte13
Жыл бұрын
10000%
@shadownorthsurvival
Жыл бұрын
Yes stolen native bones
@keoni_6375
Жыл бұрын
Haha just wait til you learn what planned parenthood does to their fetuses
@rainforest9209
4 ай бұрын
@@shadownorthsurvivalit's completely illegal to own native remains, and the guy in the video has actually made a point of explaining that in his own content
I would love to end up on someone's mantel, just chilling there- continuing to be a part of someone's life.
As a paleontologist, this makes my skin crawl. There is no way to profit off of the bone trade ethically.
With all do respect...this TikToker has a very immature perspective on this topic... Looking at and knowing the history alone, makes my skin scrawl just seeing his apartment. I loved that y'all interviewed the Professor.. some great facts and incite. Loved his perspective.
@rebeccathompsun1238
Жыл бұрын
Crawl*** 🤣😂 (I swear I’m literate 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣)
@janinewetzler5037
Жыл бұрын
I am totally cool with what Jon is doing as a business.
@MrMountainchris
Жыл бұрын
Why does it matter? They're dead. I don't gaf what happens to my body after I'm dead.... because I'll be dead. lol
There's a misconception that systems where people get to donate their bodies to science avoid these hurdles altogether. These systems were mostly born in the XXth century because those that ended up under the knife before that were mostly the poor and the indigent, forced to sell their bodies, or claimed because there was no one else to claim their bodies and afford a burial. But in truth, body donation schemes were largely abused by coroners and the medical establishment, which blurred the lines of informed consent and kept the bodies for longer than the law intended, leading to several scandals. If you have the stomach for it, I do recommend the books by historian Elizabeth Hurren on how the UK tangled with that delicate question in the XIXth and XXth centuries. "Dying for Victorian medicine" in particular is tragic but very informative.
@karenishness1
Жыл бұрын
And not to forget the Falun Gong practitioners.
@Naedrelian
Жыл бұрын
@@karenishness1 I will admit to knowing next to nothing about that, could you elaborate, please?
@karenishness1
Жыл бұрын
@@Naedrelian The Falun Gong were yoga practitioners in China. Vegans too. Beautiful bodies and sweet souls. Chinese Govt decided they were practicing religion without a license and literally Shanghaied them. Arrested them to a prison underneath a hospital in Shanghai and sold their body parts (mostly hearts, livers, organs) to businessmen that drank themselves out of livers etc etc. Kind of like the movie: Coma with Michael Douglas. So they just stay locked up until someone with the right tissue match needs one of their body parts. Lots and lots of videos on this. Even worse the Chinese staged a worldwide "Body Exhibit" by taking some of these peaceful innocent people and injecting colored plastic into their veins to act as exhibits about medicine. Most thought the patient died first. Lethal injections. That's what the human rights violations being spoken of about ten years ago were. I think they may have run out of Falun Gong and are doing it to Uighurs now.
@Naedrelian
Жыл бұрын
Hm. Upon doing a little research, it does seem like they were unfairly used in the organ trade, which is sadly common in emerging economies and medical tourism destinations. Unfortunately, the progress of medicine creates new opportunities to oppress and market the human body.
@Jay-Screen
Жыл бұрын
It's hard to type 19th and 20th centuries...I get it.
When drug dealers and thieves make the excuse "I gotta pay rent somehow" to justify the shadiness...
Creepy AF, serial killer vibes
This bloke has travelled forward in time from the 80s to sell bones.
Maybe I interpreted this wrong but dude came off a tad rude and judgemental when he kept repeating that he wouldn't be involved over and over. I bet he wouldn't be as rude to a funeral director, and those guys profit tremendously from handing human remains. Some of whom are totally exploiting families who have no choice but pay the thousands of dollars it costs for a simple service and burial/cremation.
@evren.builds
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for typing out something very similar to what I was thinking about after watching :)
@spicykittyh1
Жыл бұрын
Plot twist: He was actually disgusted by the fact that this guy is a tiktokker, it had nothing to do with the skeleton hoard
@Imagonem
Жыл бұрын
If the journalist really meant what he was saying, why is he making this story and publishing it to youtube? Bones for clicks! He _is_ involved in the bone trade.
@ironclad1056
Жыл бұрын
I get what you mean but even a funeral director is providing a service to the family and loved ones of the deceased. Essentially stopping the decomposition long enough to present the body. They embalm the body and dress them up to look presentable and lovely for their last viewing with their families. Although yes they do make a ridiculously large amount of money but at least it's one last service for a loved one. I admire this man has a passion for real bones but him answering about having to make rent makes him look entirely diffrent.
@jolynn589
Жыл бұрын
A few of the Vice journalists are pretty terrible at being impartial during their interviews....which is the whole point of their jobs as journalists.
Before my granny passed, she had told me not to waste my gas money going to the cemetery to visit her bones. Her soul is awaiting Jesus. Who cares what is left behind. How fun! I would love for my skull to travel the world seeing that my living self never has!
@Lisa1111
Жыл бұрын
😉
@karenishness1
Жыл бұрын
Call yourself Falun Gong and it will happen quicker than you expected.
Looks like the Predator’s Closet with all those spines😂
Ethical, unethical...There is the catacombs in Paris, the infamous houses of the dead in London, England during the Black Plague, the Churches in Portugal literally floor to ceiling human remains as cemetery plots were just rental basis. In some countries cemetery plots are still just rentals!! really have to consider that these individuals may have been sold to medical industries by their family members to help with household income in India, China at the time. Also consider that dealing with the indigent and poverty stricken dead was often dealt with by sales of the remains or just giving them away! The ideal of the way to treat humans alive or otherwise is at best, still, an ethical debate as there are numerous countries that don't consider mishandling of these remains a huge deal! Humans are not respected once dead in some countries. Back around one hundred years ago, consider that we had LEGAL child labour and did not have humane treatment for children or women (being considered property of their male family members at the time). Remember the Humane Society was established for the humane treatment of children and animals!!
If his building had a fire, the investigators would think they stumbled across the world's most prolific serial killer! 🙀 Fascinating episode as always, Vice!😻
@tehyalewis2549
Жыл бұрын
They wouldn’t know which one was him 😂😂
@aimiemamie1256
Жыл бұрын
He already looks eerily like Richard Ramirez (the Night Stalker) 😳
@petschitt2252
Жыл бұрын
Oh my! 😹 You're right! 😹
@aimiemamie1256
Жыл бұрын
@@petschitt2252 I could not stop paying attention to that similarity throughout the whole video 😅
Well good luck finding the original person, location and family that these bones belonged to. All of those who are concerned about the ethical aspect are you going to take the time, money and resources to find who the bones belonged to and what their wishes were before they died? Yeah I didn't think so. He's getting them from people who want nothing to do with bones that their doctor grandpa passed down.
@jamiecurran3544
Жыл бұрын
They should just all be buried somewhere peaceful n nice not profiteered from by this dude!🤔✌
@nocheapdopamine725
Жыл бұрын
Ok and their doctor grandpa got them from someone who got them from someone who STOLE a person’s remains. The ends do not justify the means in this scenario. No one’s asking him to find their family, just maybe don’t be a part of that process at all. This reminds me of that Israeli dude who said “if I don’t steal your house someone else will.” Just because the specimens are out there doesnt mean they should be profited off of.
@celesterosales8976
Жыл бұрын
If you don’t believe in afterlife and these are so old that the descendants can’t be bothered, where’s the problem? If you do believe in an afterlife, most belief systems suggest that after you die you would become the type of ¿ person/spirit/being? that would be happy to help humankind. Of course I plan to donate my body to science.
@altha-rf1et
Жыл бұрын
wonder if the could use DNA of the bones and go to Ancestry
@jamiecurran3544
Жыл бұрын
@@nocheapdopamine725 I completely agree with your comment n if I didn't then maybe somebody else would!😁lol😜✌
When Jon dies I want his skeleton displayed in my home for educational purposes
@amandamarie3e
Жыл бұрын
I don’t think that’d bother him tho
@dudebro765
Жыл бұрын
Pretty sure he'd be ok with it, it's not the "gotcha" that you think it is.
There is nothing educational about it. Has to be illegal. And it’s creepy someone’s grandma is there being sold
You dont need your body when your gone, i rather have someone appreciate my bones than rot in dark damp grave. So what if people earn a bit of money of my bones, helping even after death. I also want to add that i think much more people should consider being organ donors, why waste your body when you can save many lifes?
@raintarrant7771
Жыл бұрын
agreed
@kw8671
Жыл бұрын
The problem is ppl want their bones to go to SCIENCE, and get their finalerequest isnt fufillef
I hope my body can go towards something like this. Even if I had a limb removed I'd like to keep it and sell it to someone who would appreciate it. lol I hope my friends and family can get some $$ for my bones to offset the cost of death in the US.
@Medicoboi
Жыл бұрын
What's cost of death?!
@kyleluster4713
Жыл бұрын
@@Medicoboi bro made it sound like a debit charge
@shade247
Жыл бұрын
Right, friends and family. But not a stranger tiktok brat
""Pieces end up in the trash." LOL. What pieces are we talking about here? Human pieces?
The moment he said half a million dollars, people are going to find him and steal the bones lol
Dude seems creepy
@melaniekeeling7462
Жыл бұрын
Yep
@elboscohieronymusbosch370
Жыл бұрын
And you seems dummy
Hey JonsBones has no way of knowing whether or not they are working with indigenous or graverobbed bones. They generally do not have the paperwork for their bones and Jon is not actually an osteologist or anthropologist and is not licensed to be doing this work. Most of the bones in the shop have unknown origins. Please do not shop from him and seek out actual professionals who do the work to seek out the information on where the bones actually came from.
@nobodyspecial4702
Жыл бұрын
The bones are there already and you would instead tell people to go to someone selling newly sourced bones, because that's somehow more ethical in your mind. The people being sourced from today are the same as the ones from the past, the poor, the indigenous, the people nobody cares about. What makes you think your professional is anything other than a person sourcing from wherever they can get them cheap, and simply creating a document saying otherwise?
@WelfareChrist
Жыл бұрын
This was my first thought! He says in the beginning "Oh we don't work with tribal or graverobbed skulls" and I was like how the hell would he know that?! Show me all the exhaustive research he did. Lies. It's literally creating a market and incentive for people who stumble across native burial sites to dig them up, clean them off, and "inherit them from their grandfather". And even if that's not the case for "most" of his bones, the point in my mind is they were never provided with forethought, intent, consent, or compensation. Frankly, as far as I'm concerned they were all grave robbed. And people saying we need it for medical studies are idiots, we don't.
@janinewetzler5037
Жыл бұрын
Ummm...one hundred year old bones?...Even the professionals cannot vouch for the origins of them.
@MrMountainchris
Жыл бұрын
It doesn't matter. They're dead. They don't care anymore either.
I told my children long ago, when I die... sell my skeleton on tik tok
Where does he think the people got those skeletons from that were “inherited” many of those doctors stole native bones to “study”
Jon bones jones?
@psychedelicpsycho
Жыл бұрын
Hahaha funny
@PE6I1
Жыл бұрын
My first thought 😅😅😅
“I don’t believe in hoarding” Didn’t stay a second after that lmfao
@acetate909
Жыл бұрын
Hoarders collect things because they're psychologically unable to get rid of things they posses. This guy has no problem selling his collection so he's not a hoarder. He's an online seller who stores his goods in a small apartment until they're sold.
This reminds me, what ever happen to that horror show in Arizona for “donated body parts”. Anyone who’s thinks this is insane and already question this industry. I highly suggest looking up this story.
Naive of the journalist to say he didn’t want anything to do with it when I’m sure be benefits from it’s medical/ dental explorations in their beginnings. ie, Chiropractors, dentists, hip/ knee replacements etc etc etc …..
@alexx_windycitychi558
Жыл бұрын
You don’t need peoples remains for that we have technology and replicas of the human skeleton system, how would you feel if somebody from your family was donated to science and dissection without permission or consent from the family or person itself just to be sold and hung up on somebody’s wall like a trophy it’s fucking weird ,, don’t get me wrong it’s cool but have some respect for human remains that was once a person and belongs to somebody and it should be buried or incinerated / ashes and disposed of properly , you like skeletons so much pay a couple hundred bucks for replica skeletons made from substances that will take forever to diminish
@janinewetzler5037
Жыл бұрын
We understand how to avoid frost bite in Winter from the Nazi experiments on Jewish prisoners of war and also we understand syphilis because of the experiments done on some black male populations in the U.S. South in the twentieth century.
@dreamlife2351
Жыл бұрын
@@alexx_windycitychi558 I agree, I did saw in the beginnings
@dreamlife2351
Жыл бұрын
@@janinewetzler5037 yes tragically true. I did state , in the beginning. I meant from time immemorial . I apologize if I offended you.
I'm going to stick with my plastic skull.. 😅
But in my country during the first year of med school a lot of students buy real bone set. So I think this should continue
@feedbackhell
Жыл бұрын
nothing changes if the bone is made of plastic or something right?
I made comments here on a positive note about the business this man is in10 months ago. I stand by all of my comments to this day. It costs a lot of money to inter bones, burial ain't free and family cannot always or even mostly be relied on for seeing to your remains once you are gone!! These bones have a use and this man simply meets that use.
Why is he upset that people bury the bones cos they don't know what to do with it?? I'm mind blown
He should make a spine guitar! Metal AF!
We humans are funny. I think we are too attached to our loved ones dead bodies/bones, however, that’s only my opinion.
Some people donated to science but may have thought twice if they knew some of the things there bodies where used for. Example the automotive industry used bodies as crash test dummies. Some bodies where used for gaining data on explosions. There is of course bodies that have been used for medical students. I feel like if you donate your body maybe you should be guaranteed that it will be used in a way you are ok with.
reporter got schooled at the end
I'm looking forward to the Netflix docuseries about this soon to be serial killer next year . fs
@karenishness1
Жыл бұрын
Falun Gong already..
How many did he supply himself?
@avacadomangobanana2588
Жыл бұрын
Bones
at least theyv'e become useful again in jon's hands.He's still teaching people which is what these bones were originally used for. Otherwise they'd become useless.
The one guy you don't want saying to you - "I have a bone to pick with you"
It is stigmatized, if he is really helping ppl with remains that they don't know what to do with. I think that's a respectable cause. And it's not hoarding, it would technically be inventory... Because that's his business. I do agree that clearly back in the 1920s there was a ton of grave robbing, and a lot of those old companies probably did procure them through unethical means. I feel like "Ask a Mortician" dose a much better job broaching these types of subjects. I thought the reporter was kinda passive aggressive at the end. Like I get he doesn't want anything to do with selling bones. But it's off-putting when the reporter is judgemental. 🤔 Soured the interview for sure.
@sd-ch2cq
Жыл бұрын
This kid has been buying bones for some 5-10 years (given his age) and now thinks he is the british museum: woe me, what can i possibly do but continue to make a profit on grave-robbery.
@MissAynneK
Жыл бұрын
I agree. The "I don't want anything to do with it" and the "I don't think people should be profiting off of this" statements were not what I want to hear from an interviewer. Bc in all honesty, there businesses/jobs like funeral homes or morticians or coroners that "profit" from people dying as well. Is he expecting this to be free? The man is helping to solve a problem and educating people in the process, if it pays his way, so be it.
@sd-ch2cq
Жыл бұрын
To add: Ask A Mortician is completely different, because i feel like she always tries to be respectfull of the person who those remains belonged to
@ciennabohmer9767
Жыл бұрын
the only thing i think that is super sketchy about his practice is that anyone can send him bones. its just a google forum on his website..
@whimai412
Жыл бұрын
@@ciennabohmer9767 that is super sketch. Well there definitely needs to be better laws in place about human remains. Seems like there is a bunch of gray areas. But at the same time, for families that want to do more personal burials than traditional funerals. Need to be kept in mind too, that is if more laws are put in place about human remains.
I'm surprised people feel so strongly about this! I don't care what happens to my bones after I die. We are born from dust and will become dust.
@jamiecurran3544
Жыл бұрын
These poor individuals are not returning to the earth though,they're becoming this deluded individuals paycheck!🤔😒, it's wrong on so many levels!🤔✌
@inkynewt
Жыл бұрын
@@jamiecurran3544 Idk, I won't be around, what does it matter if someone makes a buck off my bones? I'm sure a lot of these people are disenfranchised and poor, I'd rather they get a thousand off my bones after I'm gone than not.
@TheWobblyQueen
Жыл бұрын
Depends how you view it, like bones are fine but not muscle & tissue. Personally being in Europe there are the Paris catacombs, the ossuaries, plague pits, where bones have been removed & reburied, so used to the idea & of that. But actual fresh cadavers, like I’ve been cold a day, have at it,,,,,, No thanks. Organ donation fine, I’m just a bag of flesh,,, but don’t be using me like a flesh light, or string me up in an apartment.
@darklyclad
Жыл бұрын
Agree completely
@blue_light_bot
Жыл бұрын
@@jamiecurran3544 I'll amend my statement for clarity: we are born from stardust and will become stardust. I mean that money/time/earth are irrelevant. ✌
Maybe I’m just stupid, but why is it such a mystery as to what to do with them? Like, what’s wrong with just giving them a burial? I must be missing something.
Ah yes let me just get some human remains for my mid modern home
The journalist says he wouldn't want to be involved but he is involved by making the video. And he's profiting off of the skeleton trade by making the video.
@thegoogs
Жыл бұрын
This seems like you are willfully misunderstanding the context of the question - he was asked what he would do with the bones if he was theoretically in Jon’s shoes, and he responded that in this scenario he wouldn’t want to be involved in the human bones trade. He never said he makes no money off of reporting on a range of issues he covers for his job.
@imdavef
Жыл бұрын
@@thegoogs It seems you are willfully ignoring my point.
@samslime1533
Жыл бұрын
@@thegoogs Interviewer: “I wouldn’t wanna profit off of skeleton trade, oh heavens no!” *Proceeds to make monetised documentary about skeleton trade”
Oh for Pete's sake. They're just BONES. They aren't a part of your decaying matter (which I suppose there's an argument about how that goes on to live in other organic matter). I look at this the same way I look at vintage fur. Should we make new fur clothes? Prob not. Just as we likely shouldn't continue to get new bones, at least without documented consent. But what's the harm in using what's already out there? And who cares if the man uses it to pay his bills? Good for him.
I don’t know who I’m more worried about , the people selling these things or the people BUYING them lol
''where do they come from'' he's stated before that they are usually from dentists,old house sales,dr's retired pieces. They are medical specimens. I don't see the problem if these have previously been used over and over again for learning purposes,so why shouldn't jon take care of these? at least thery'e being appreciated on his shelf,come on. Otherwise they'd be buried and would crumble away.Isn't it better that the memory of these people lives on through these bones rather than crumbling into dust?
THIS RIGHT HERE IS WHY PEOPLE DONT BECOME AN ORGAN DONOR, I like the heart on my I'd and I am a donor and am happy to be But I understand why others don't when they see stuff like that
@mth4849
Жыл бұрын
Usually its stipulated that when the donee(s) are finished with the body it is cremated (at the donee's expense) and ashes returned to heirs.
So, to all the negative nellies here in the remarks, I'm sure you have no problem going into an Indian museum and looking at the skeletons that have been dug up and on display of famous Indians, or not, from hundreds of years ago
@jonathanmagana3389
Жыл бұрын
They should complain about mummies as well. While we're at it, let's also complaing about the victorian people who used to eat mummy remains.
@yeahyupp2448
Жыл бұрын
And that country those people who dog their relatives up and put fresh cloths on them
@chrisserr9066
Жыл бұрын
It is a problem because most of those artifacts were stolen. For example geronimo's skull was stolen.
"i dont live in a chateau with lamborghuinis" no but was happy to say his collection is worth 500k-600k...
@altha-rf1et
Жыл бұрын
when they say that like other people on you tube buying stuff at Walmart or somewhere then re=-soling it they just have a potential profit of 500k to 600k not actual profit until it is sold
@qzwx4205
Жыл бұрын
@@altha-rf1et and it could be 800k of potential profit once it's sold... the point of the journalist was asking if he was making a living off abused people's bones... and his answer says he don't care... "You know I've got to make a living and eat, I don't have a chateau or lambos" I'm sure slavers would say the same... "You know I've got to pay the bills" were they right in taking advantage of other people for their own benefit? Because they only had a potential profit of 500-600k not actual profit?
This is every first year medical students dream, many a nights were passed waiting for someone to pass them their femurs and tibias because not everyone had a full set of skeleton.
@BhlackBishop
Жыл бұрын
Not sure why med students need real bones when there are 3d animations or VR if you've got the cash
This has shocked me right to the bone
@utubepunk
Жыл бұрын
Spine tingling even.
A person’s belongings including their bones should be respected and treated in the way that person wanted. No consent given means they should just bury them. What he’s doing is wrong imo
@collinis1
Жыл бұрын
Until what point? Does this include bones that are thousands of years old ?
@fishcakeman803
Жыл бұрын
@@collinis1 it's a morality issue.
@collinis1
Жыл бұрын
@@fishcakeman803 that doesn’t answer my question
@user-dv7hq2rh4g
Жыл бұрын
That would mean all the museums and places that show ancient bones are all doing it wrong. If it's for science and medicine then it's good.
@nosferatuoddz7974
Жыл бұрын
Bones are cool
When I die I want my skull to be used as the hood ornament on a rat rod Hearse.
I don’t care what happens to my bones as I will be very dead
"Gotta pay rent!" is the worst possible response he could've given here. What a sleazy guy.
@matildacaiman3894
Жыл бұрын
I know anybody in any industry like any can say that.. Pimp..gotta pay rent!
@janinewetzler5037
Жыл бұрын
Lol, give it a rest, this is LITERALY his business, so...yeah, gotta pay rent! All legit business owners do. So do drug dealers, and black market hockers, and...but we don't see them as bad just illegal.
What the grave robbing hell is going on??? 😳
Because of this, Amazon is about to be flooded with bones 🤣😂
check that mans internet history
Deep down he knows he is not doing the right thing, he is just convincing himself he is doing something good.
@user-jo4jp5pl8c
7 ай бұрын
Deep down he knows the moral argument is hogwash because they're dead and dead people can't care about their remains.
This dude just got arrested near me and near where he was in Pa that was in possession of human bones and brains and different body parts it was pretty crazy!
@pistol0grip0pump
Жыл бұрын
Have you got a local newspaper or anything talking about it because I can't find it online and it'd be interesting to read. I'm surprised that he hasn't had someone in power who's feathers he's ruffled come after him.
@eldorado1244
Жыл бұрын
@@pistol0grip0pump the guy is lieing
@DarkDonnieMarco
Жыл бұрын
@@Joe-sg9ll are you being ironic?
You nailed it Dexter.
Am i the only one who doesnt care where my bones go after I die?
So Vice journalist draws the line at profiting off the remains trade/ education but is anything in the world genuinely non-profit? Resources come from somewhere and someone gets compensated eventually. Maintaining a stable environment alone for those bones probably requires cost and upkeep. Journalism provides an incredible service of sharing information and perspectives, but should it interject opinions, not hypotheticals that skew how we view a story objectively and profit?
How is this really that different from archaeology? There are TONS of mummies and other human remains in museums all over the world. Cherishing, respecting, and learning from human remains isn’t necessarily a bad thing. These specimens are out there. I think INTENT is a very big piece of all of this. Flaunting your human bones on tiktok as macabre accessories to show how quirky or hardcore you are is distasteful, even to me. I have a few pieces of human remains in my private collection. I look at myself as a caretaker. I have no idea who these people were in life, but I try my best to respect that this was a person, with a life, family, dreams, etc. These people are cared for now.
@AB-jl6su
Жыл бұрын
A big issue is that the family isn’t a part of the transaction I wouldn’t want my family members human remains cared for by a random person with some money.
@XXXTentaclez
Жыл бұрын
this guy sells humans
@AcidOllie
Жыл бұрын
Almost all of the remains that guy has have been procured illegally and been stolen, killed, abused, exploited. Mummies from a few thousand years ago died naturally and even they should be left either where they were buried or at least in their home country's national museum. Profiting from exploitation is bad. It will continue until the end of the world though.
@factzilla1868
Жыл бұрын
The sanctity of human remains is entirely silly superstition. Plenty of cultures practice sky burials and similar customs where they leave them for the animals. Bones are rocks, their owners long gone. Every vegetable you eat contains the remains of 110 billion people who once lived and became soil. So why does it matter if they're intact and on display somewhere, or dissolved in your dinner.
@HeavilyCensoredKitty
Жыл бұрын
@@AcidOllie in a great plot twist selling human bones will bring about the end of days...
I am quite worried on how haunted this place might be though 😳😨😱
Take it to Congress and see what they can do about it. At least start the discussion in Washington and get the ball rolling. Pass a bill on a federal level. Funeral homes make plenty of money off of death.
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Жыл бұрын
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as an archaeologist, this just feels wrong even to me 😟
@inkynewt
Жыл бұрын
You do the same exact thing lol
@inkynewt
Жыл бұрын
@basedban No, nor do I believe 99% of archeologists are working with ethically sourced remains or using them solely for research.
@altha-rf1et
Жыл бұрын
So you are ok with digging them up to study them
@inkynewt
Жыл бұрын
@@altha-rf1et Imo, there are necessary evils in this world for every human desire. If we want to continue understanding the past, this is that evil.
@altha-rf1et
Жыл бұрын
@@inkynewt fought evil myself seen the horrors of war, what horrible people can do to kids, and what drugs can do to people seen stuff that real nightmares are made off
Vice do us a favor and don't give good stories to jackass reporters that are going to make the people the are interviewing feel awkward by telling them they wouldn't want to be involved. If you did not want to be involved you should have chosen another story to report on. As for Jon, you're mad cool man and conducting yourself with more than enough ethics, don't let these haters throw shade on you, you Rock Bro! Keep up the good work!
12:10 - "I don't think I'd feel comfortable selling...human remains..."
In every business there is always a dark secret behind
I own afew real human bones and I can tell you I’d much rather have them in my office respectfully displayed and use them for education than their fate before I owned them. People who inherit them really don’t know what to do and get scared assuming it’s illegal and throw them out. I’d rather my skull or femur be in a suede and hickory mount than in a land fill.