news title: China used to harvest organs from prisoners.
Under pressure, that practice is
finally ending.
date: 2017/09/14
> the author of the piece you link to formerly worked for
> the China Daily in Beijing, run by the Publicity
> Department of the Communist Party of China.
> Finally, you do realize that skulls are easily
> obtained via death by natural causes, right?
> Especially before the adoption of antibiotics
> and vaccination?
>
> Tibetans practice sky burial, where bodies are
> left out in a charnel ground and picked clean by
> wildlife. (Probably because digging graves is
> difficult and cremation would be a waste of scarce
> fuel.) I suspect they have a different attitude
> about the dead and their parts than you.
There are trumpets made of human thigh-bones,
the bones of criminals of those who have died a
violent death being preferred for this purpose.
the bones of Father Brieux killed in 1881 [happened
in Tibet] were 1881 were taken from his grave, and
his skull was made into a drinking-cup.