Tell you what’s not going to work: marching on over to your local funeral home and saying, “Greetings! That’s my mom’s corpse over there. Could you just pop off her head and de-flesh her skull? That would be great. Thanks!” Your average funeral home (really, any funeral home) is not set up to handle such a request, legally or practically. As a funeral director, I honestly have no idea what equipment a proper decapitation requires. The subsequent de-fleshing is far beyond me. I assume it involves boiling and/or dermestid beetles, but that’s not in the mortuary school curriculum.
