Hannah Fry

She thought it was this horrible, morbid thing that Byron had done.

And so she dismantled the goblet.

She had the silver removed.

She gave the monk skull a proper Christian blessing and then secretly reburied it somewhere on the vast grounds of the estate.

It's decent.

He wrote a poem about it as well.

Oh, he did?

Yeah.

It was called Lines Inscribed Upon a Cup Formed from a Skull.

I mean, for someone who was known for his words, that's not a particularly good title, I don't think.

Wouldn't work on YouTube.

Anyway, he said that it was better for a skull to hold the drink of gods than to be food for worms.

Essentially, that's what the poem's about.

I mean, it depends on what the monks wanted.

I think it depends on what the monks wanted.

And I think that probably the monks, you know, didn't want to be slobbered over for the rest of time.

Yeah.

I think you've got to be careful about this wish to give your skeleton to your family, you know.

I trust them too.

I just don't trust the many generations of people to come afterwards.