The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #68199 Message #1145954
Posted By: Rapparee
25-Mar-04 - 12:59 PM
Thread Name: BS: Digging up Mummies on TV
Subject: RE: BS: Digging up Mummies on TV
Frankly, when I'm done with my bod (if ever, 'cause considering my probable destination I'm not planning on making the trip) I would like all of the usable parts reused. Then they can do with it whatever they want -- maybe encase it in Lucite like one of those biology lab starfish and gaze at it lovingly and often, or stuff it, or burn it, or mummify it for future generations.
As the man said, "This is only the shell...the nut has gone elsewhere."
If that means diggin' me up to see what sort of culture I lived in, why should I care? And we've been doing that for years -- even to our 19th Century ancestors, even to our 20th Century ones.
Would I care if, for instance, my parents bodies were exhumed for archeological reasons? No, not really, as long as it would promote our knowledge of the world they lived in. It would be easier, though, to ask me and I'll tell them what I know and even show them photos. Moreover, I'm quite certain that neither of my parents would care.