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13 February,2022 09:19 AM IST |  New York  |  Agencies

This 22-year-old Brooklyn-based student is earning his living by buying and selling medical skeletons and skulls

Jon Pichaya Ferry’s fascination with anatomy began when he was just 15. Pic/Instagram


It's fair to say that Jon Pichaya Ferry from Brooklyn, New York, has received a fair bit of backlash regarding the way he makes his living. The 22-year-old student currently makes an income by buying and selling medical skeletons, spines, and skulls. The product design student has more than 200 pieces in his morbid collection including a variety of human skulls and a wall filled with over 100 spines and skulls - and they're all kept in his apartment.

Although the nature of his trade has raised a few eyebrows, Ferry claims his collection of bones is just for educational purposes, stating that he only works "with medical bones which is what doctors and osteologists use for studying". The majority of the bones acquired by Ferry have reportedly been passed down from doctors or other medical professionals, and "come from a time where people willingly donated them to science or their family did." Therefore, Ferry explained, most of the bones in his collection have been "passed down from older generations". Ferry has in his possession 13 full skeletons.

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