As per recent reports, it has been revealed that museum chiefs have discarded the recommendations made recently by experts of medical ethics and law that the skeleton of the “Irish Giant”, a 18th century man, must not be displayed in the museum and should be buried at sea.

Charles Byrne, the “Irish Giant” was actually from the Londonderry County, and he scaled a distance of over 7ft 7in from the ground. Byrne broke into fame during 1780s demonstrating himself as a freak, curiosity, and astonishment all over London.

The life of the celebrity ultimate got the better of him, which might be down to the fact that he got involved into heavy drinking. Later, the giant died at his Charing Cross residence at the age of 22. Soon after the death of the Irish Giant, his body was taken by John Hunter, a London-based surgeon, and his skeleton was kept for display at the London-based Royal College of Surgeons’ Hunterian Museum.

But in recent times, various experts and medical authorities have condemned the act of displaying the skeleton at the museum. In this regard, the emeritus professor of medical ethics at the University of London’s Queen Mary, Len Doyal and Thomas Muinzer, a lawyer from Queen's University’s School of Law have presented a report in the latest edition of the British Medical Journal. The reports urge that the skeleton of the Irish Giant must be buried at sea, seeing the fact that Byrne himself wished for the same.

They admit that the skeleton has proved extremely important in terms of associating the situation dubbed acromegaly, the condition in which excess growth hormones are produced by the pituitary gland. The disclosure made it comparatively easier for medics to indetify the said condition among people and provides timely treatment to them.