2026年、ドイツ・ヘッセン州カッセルで、生物室に何十年も立っていた骨格標本が本物の人骨だと分かり、高校生が埋葬した。名は「ニラン」。2026 — In Kassel, Germany, a school skeleton that had stood for decades turned out to be a real human, and students buried it. They named it Niran.

At the Carl-Schomburg-Schule in Kassel, Hesse, a skeleton that had stood for decades as a teaching aid in the biology room turned out to be not plastic but a real human one. It had once been a person.

The tenth-grade class that learned this was shaken, and from then on took up the matter not in biology but in ethics class.

The students gave the nameless skeleton a name: Niran.

Niran was buried in Kassel's main cemetery. The class decorated the coffin with drawings. The city cemetery office provided the coffin, the grave and the plot, all free of charge.

A 16-year-old student, Biljana, gave the eulogy: 'This life was still a part of our world, and left a trace,' and 'Every life is precious and worth remembering.'

According to an expert at the museum of sepulchral culture, Niran was probably a young man from India. Until the early twentieth century it was normal in India to order human remains, which then became teaching aids in universities and schools.

How many human bones are in the schools of Hesse is not known, because procurement was decentralised, the state education ministry says. A survey in Hamburg in August 2025 found human remains in forty percent of secondary schools, including twenty-two complete skeletons and forty-six skulls.