A German high school has built a funeral for a female skeleton, which has been used as a teaching aid for biology classes since 1952.
On Wednesday, the school held a party to rest an important member of the school’s staff, a real skeleton that has been used in a biology class for 70 years.
The ceremony for the female skeleton of an unnamed woman was held at the Protestant cemetery, located in the western German town of Schleiden, according to the Associated Press news agency.
The agency reported that the woman was called “Anna Bien”, which means “mysterious peace” in Vietnamese, and was placed in a coffin bearing the symbols of major religions.
“We are already laying a member of the school community in their grave,” said the priest who presided over the ceremony, Oliver Goswig.
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The skeleton has been used as an educational aid at the school since 1952, but was later replaced with a plastic model, according to the Associated Press, and the school sent DNA samples from the skeleton’s bones in an effort to reveal more about the woman’s origins.
There may still be many schools and universities in America that use actual human remains for anatomical studies, according to the American “NPR” website.
However, the source of such skeletons may be questionable in some cases, as a 2007 WIRED investigation revealed that some skeletons were transported from countries such as India, and taken from remote villages without prior parental consent.