Will you miss your skin when it’s gone?

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“…This question is distinctly disturbing and I don’t really wish to give it the thought that it would need to adequately answer it…

"Especially as now I’m working through the ways to skin a person and coming up with a list of questions that I would need to ask for clarification… Do you intend to take the skin off while I’m alive? After I’m dead? Are you attempting to keep it in as a cohesive piece as possible, or are smaller pieces acceptable? Perhaps you don’t intend to use the skin for anything, and intend to remove it with a tool such as a-

"God, this is a really ghastly subject, isn’t it? I don’t… think I really want to continue this train of thought. I’m not easily squeamish with these kind of things, but this is edging on that territory…

"…especially when it’s too easy to recall that case in London with the butcher. Oh, God.”