Look and see if your state has at home Burial services. If they do tell them you want to bury the body at home and you do not want it embalmed. Then buy an absolute fuck ton of Dermestid beetles online. Then, get ready for the horrid smell as they eat the flesh off of your father's rotting corpse over the course of a year or more.

It's actually the exact opposite to what he says. In the US you can do almost anything you want with human remains, while in Europe it's much more restricted. In Denmark for example, you have to have the body/ashes buried in a licensed cemetery. You can't keep the ashes yourself, you can't bury them in your backyard, you can't spread them at some random special place (except for the sea in rare circumstances).

Pretty sure this is legal, they just wouldn't release an unembalmed corpse for health reasons.

Wouldn't OP just have to find a qualified mortician willing to do the work?

Apparently there's no federal law (in the US) banning the ownership of human bones because up until the mid to late 20th century it was apparently common practice for med students to purchase real human bones for their studies. Most of them apparently came from India, until the country banned the export of human remains, which must have played a part in causing the practice to fall out of style.

If anyone has anything to correct/add, please do so. This was just a quick google search out of morbid curiosity

What if I put it in my will that I want my skeleton turned into a kick ass statue in a WH40K style marine suit?

.....how would a coroner go about removing a skeleton without destroying the body? I'm pretty sure this is nowhere in a coroner job description. I'd tell him the same thing.

Nope. Chuck Testa!

im gonna force (post mortem) whatever morgue that has to deal with my body upon death to rip all my teeth out so i can send them to my friends.

I've got worse ideas. Apparently there's a company or was, idk if it's still around that would preserve tats from the skin of the now longer alive individual. I'm really tempted to get a tattoo of a dashed grid on my back, with numbered squares (2x2inches per square for example) just so i can tell people that when i die it's going to be removed, segmented, preserved, and then sent to people that knew me.

Going to have to update my will

This podcast goes into some good detail about how and why it's illegal in the context of the guy being an investigative journalist ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JP76ekb_DxI )

My little brother likes to say he's going to have us all taxidermied and put on roller skates so we'll be with him forever.

Shove my corpse on a random desert hillside and study its decomposition ... hyper-specific because there's actually a study like so, but yeah, anything that isn't claimed by patients/doctors who need it, I want set out for sky "burial".

Now I think about it, I think I read that study wants entire corpses. Now I'm sad.