Is It Right?

[LordKathen]

Originally posted by khazadman: Well if the family of the Stonehenge guy complains then re-inter him.

Point made.

[Timber Loftis]

I agree with Lord Kathen about studying the remains - plus the person achieves a type of immortality altogether impossible by burial alone.

Anyway, it's a foregone conclusion to what's going to happen. His remains will be treated as an artifact, just like the rest of him. Heck, the best graves in Egypt are in the British Museum.

[Charlie]

Originally posted by Timber Loftis: I Heck, the best graves in Egypt are in the British Museum.

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Therefore by your own admission the best graves in Egypt aren't even in Egypt. These exceptionally important people aren't even in the soil that they called home. Not even in their homeland that they helped to shape. We should be ashamed. Are they now graves at all? How about we dig up Henry VIII, see what his bones tell us.
Study the dead and learn what we can but at least put them back where they were meant to rest when we're done.

[LordKathen]

Is this going to be a morality about the dead debate?
If so, I stated my opinion. I think that the persuit of knowledge about past lives and culture is the #1 most important issue to evolve our inteligence about who we are and where we come from. We need to constatly look for answers to have any answers. Who knows, maybe this guy was athiest and would not mind being scientific study today. Maybe not, who knows.

[Charlie]

Originally posted by LordKathen: We need to constatly look for answers to have any answers. Who knows, maybe this guy was athiest and would not mind being scientific study today. Maybe not, who knows.

What will the bones of a great man tell us, how old he was, how he died? Interesting but so f****ng what? What was the question that we were asking this 4000 year old man in the first place? What was his answer? Did science progress?
But because he has no voice let's dig him up and leave him dug up. I understand and accept the need to learn. But at least learn and then put him back where those that buried him thought it was right for him to reside.

[LordKathen]

Calm down man.
I care, like I said. There is more to learn than just his age. What he ate, his ailments, his biology, etc...
It may show us nothing, but we wont know, till we look.
Why is it so inportant to rebury him, anyway?

[Attalus]

I always sort of thought that it was rather callous to exhibit the mummies like they do. But, I remember, when I was a kid, visiting Dodge City, Kansas, and they had a tourist attraction called Boot Hill. One of the graves had been opened and the skeleton was on display behind glass. "A cowboy's grave," they called it. All morbid curiosity, I call it.

[LordKathen]

Originally posted by Attalus: I always sort of thought that it was rather callous to exhibit the mummies like they do. But, I remember, when I was a kid, visiting Dodge City, Kansas, and they had a tourist attraction called Boot Hill. One of the graves had been opened and the skeleton was on display behind glass. "A cowboy's grave," they called it. All morbid curiosity, I call it.

In that situation, I would agree. Theres not a whole lot more learn there, so whats the point.
But, these bones are a whole different story.

[Charlie]

Originally posted by LordKathen: It may show us nothing, but we wont know, till we look. Why is it so inportant to rebury him, anyway?

Why was it so important to leave him dug up?

It was obviously very important for the people who buried him to bury him, very important indeed. The very least we can do imho is re-interr him in his original burial plot after we've err....looked.

[Lady Aberdene]

Wow, I am surprised I have heard nothing of this till now. By studying the bodies and artifacts they could really learn a lot. Rewrite history. As for their souls I think their souls are already far away from their physical bodies and their is no changing that. Their is no reason to display decaying bodies or bones. It would be much more humane to build a tombstone and small museum with artifacts. More tourist attraction = more revenue. The biggest thing is to treat them with the respect they deserve, Rich or poor.

[ 02-20-2003, 01:28 AM: Message edited by: Lady Aberdene ]