Maybe they donated their bodies? Maybe to a university or medical science group that couldn't use the body for some reason.

Yes. From my reading, most of the skeletons used by the film industry were obtained legally from donated bones that were then made into articulated skeletons like the kind used in biology classrooms and doctors offices. The articulated skeletons and loose bones could and still can be obtained legally. Personally, I see my bones as nothing more dignified than my hair and fingernails. Once I'm dead I'm dead. Although I'm still plan on having all my orifices superglued shut so the mortician doesn't sex up my corpse. Why should he have all the fun.

If I donate my body to medical science I’m not agreeing for it to be used as a film prop.

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You don't get to declare something a "human right" just to try to "win" Particularly when the definition of "dignity" can vary from one person to the next. Your "rights" cease to exist when you stop living. You want to honor and respect someone who has died? You do so by keeping their memory alive. Telling their stories or carrying on their legacy. Not by building a shrine to what they used to be, so people 100 years from now can look blankly at the name they no nothing about. the Royal Shakespeare Company, uses a real skull for their production of hamlet. Why? Because someone donated their body to medical research and left their skull to the company asking it to be used as a prop on stage. So there's a very real possibility, that whomever that isn't, is having their wish fulfilled.

First of all I genuinely have no desire to “win” - I’m sorry that you feel the need to take a competitive approach. I am merely sharing a point of view. Yes- I do actually believe that dignity is a human right. I also believe that after death people still have a right to respect and dignity. If someone violates a living being then we react. The dead cannot react, so it is up to the living to show some respect. Perhaps it comes down to a personal understanding of how we value human life and what we thinks it means to be a human being.

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And, regardless of whether or not anyone happens to pump their dead full of poison, many other countries instead cover their graves in a foot of concrete! And even if they don't the effects of the ongoing tradition of shrines as some hollow, low effort way of "honoring" the dead, still has the consequence of making huge swaths of land untouchable, on the basis of "not disturbing the used to be something" despite the fact that the entire planet, is already one massive grave yard. Current estimates put the collective historical human population at 117 billion. There's 8 billion walking around right now. Everyone needs to wrap their heads around the real world consequences of our actions, instead of getting distracted with childish notions.

I must admit that I don’t understand why you mention shrines, chemicals, concrete etc, when the question is about using real skeletons without the consent of the deceased or the living actress. However as you brought it up, there are many lands whose tradition is to bury the dead in a simple shroud directly in the earth with nothing on top but earth and naturally occurring growths. After a period of time, those graves are reused. How people honour the dead is hugely personal and deeply important to many people. It would sensible to acknowledge that having beliefs different from our own does not make someone “childish “ or incapable of intelligent reasoning. In fact the need to mention “getting distracted with childish notions “, doesn’t seem particularly mature.

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Who said they didn't have permission from the deceased? You're assuming. The actress didn't agree, but it's really no worse than touching a chicken bone...except with zero chance of disease. Why do i mention all the many consequences of how society treats their dead? Hmm...probably because those consequences are real, measurable and significant yet almost no one considers them. Why? Because the only thing that matters is their "deeply personal traditions" which are all based on some sort of religious fantasy. Yet, something like this post pops up, and the outrage is immediate. What are the consequences? Someone doesn't like it, negative emotions are elicited, so of course it must because the dead are being some how disrespected. But the dead, don't have feelings, or thoughts or preferences, what's being "disrespected" is your notion of what is proper, and which are largely based on religious traditions.....which are cloaked in childish narcissism.

Wow - hit a nerve. Best of luck to you.

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See, i'm a little tired of seeing humanity act as if their feelings, are more important than consequences, and of people getting offended on behalf of someone else (especially if that someone is no longer living) based solely on assumptions and personal views.

I hope you find some peace.

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Yeah, people have all kinds of baseless hang-ups that have no place in reality, doesn't mean it's worth threatening the livelihoods of a hundred odd people and derailing a film that's already spent millions just to feed into someone neuroses.