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There will always be dead people, maybe we should use their skin? What else could we do with it?

Using animal skin for clothing and accessories is obscene.

We do need to make better use of humans that's for sure.

Organ donation rates are still pretty poor and funeral practices in the west are needlessly inhibitory to decomposition.

There's been rumours of human leather forever, I reckon some people would quite like to be a jacket or suitcase!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lampshades_made_from_human_s...

Some disturbing historical precedent

If humans were grown in farms for the purpose of using their meat, then yes, we shouldn't waste them.

And even still being opposed to products made from humans who die naturally is an emotional one not a logical one. I feel like people assume that human leather would look like human skin stitched together but would actually just look like every other leather. Google "leather before tanning" and it's just as creepy.

You might be interested in this rather dark read:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_the_Skin_(novel)

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