Comments on: Taxidermy lighting

By: BobsYourUncle

BobsYourUncle — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

“Taxidermy is incongruously an ethical design choice. If an animal is already dead, why not preserve it?”

I look forward to seeing what you do with your relatives bodies when they die. I’m guessing most squirrels and ducks they were happy enough with their purpose and beauty before they were declared vermin and shot.

By: TheThinker

TheThinker — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

“I look forward to seeing what you do with your relatives bodies when they die”

Seriously ? You are comparing a squirrel to a human relative ??

By: BobsYourUncle

BobsYourUncle — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

If the relative is already dead, why not preserve them?
At least you are (presumably) waiting for the relative to die of natural causes, not shooting them.

By: TheThinker

TheThinker — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

To each his own. I’m sure glad I’m not related to you…

By: BobsYourUncle

BobsYourUncle — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

And I’m glad I’m not a fuzzy little animal in your neck of the world…

By: TheThinker

TheThinker — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Yep, that is too bad…

By: vrandy.myopenid.com

vrandy.myopenid.com — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I don’t understand you people.

I *HOPE* someone does something constructive with my corpse when I’m dead! That’d be awesome. Why the heck not?

You make things out of dead trees, why not dead squirrels?

By: BobsYourUncle

BobsYourUncle — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Here is the trick to understand: I find killing an animal so you can gut it, stuff it, and mount it to the wall holding a light bulb disgusting. And I find passing that off as ethical as insulting. Read the article, the squirrel didn’t start off dead.

Once your dead of natural causes, who gives (though I think a lamp is awfully macabre).

Do you *HOPE* some aspiring Dahmer shoots you and does something constructive with your corpse tomorrow afternoon? Probably not.

For extra credit, read up on the pathology of sociopaths. They like taxidermy too.

By: Phillip Torrone

Phillip Torrone — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

taxidermy has a long history in the world of making as well as our collective human origins – great post becky.

By: Giancarlo Todone

Giancarlo Todone — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I always look forward for the next taxidermy project not because i’ve a special passion for it (to be honest i find it a little bit disgusting), but because of interesting people reactions: each of the sides -pros and cons- points out very reasonable arguments. Anyway i suspect some hypocrisy being into some of the cons argumentation: if they would wear a squirrel skin instead of making it stand a lamp, would it be more *fair* ??