Why do people thing it OK to dug up people and display them and there burial things in a museum?

Question

i think its inhuman and barbaric and weird

Answer 1

I think the Native Americans said something about going to a legislator's cemetary and digging up the remains of their great grandmother. How would the legislator feel? Does it make any difference if it is a great-great grandmother?

Interesting how there was just announced a find of four Roman graves that "missed being plundered by grave robbers." Of course if you have a degree in anthropolgy or archeology, it is not called grave robbing, it is called your job.

Still pretty ghoulish.

Watching Indiana Jones,

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Answer 2

yes it is offensive to some cultures, especially to those who believe the spirits of their ancestors still live among them.

But look at it this way.... the point of being buried with so many treasures, servants, and everyday items, is to attain immortality.  What better way to be reborn into the minds and lips of humanity than to be restored in full glory, in tasteful lighting too.

Answer 3

Well, a lot of people don't think it's ok, or at least they weren't happy with the way things stood. Look up NAGPRA, a law passed in 1990 which limits the curation of human remains in America, among other things.

Answer 4

They are just bodies, not people. None of these displays are offensive. All are meant to respect the dead, yet give others knowledge.

Answer 5

its interesting

Answer 6

Get used to it.  Someday it'll B U.

Answer 7

Everything we know about science and medicine requires the use of human bodies.  They use them to study so YOU can stay healthy.

Look, it's just a "body".  Have you ever seen a crystalis where the butterfly comes out?  OK....this body is empty once a person dies and it's just like that crystalis when the butterfly leaves...it's empty.  You'll understand more as you mature.  It's OK for people to learn from dead people.  The dead don't know the difference.  Godloveya.

Answer 8

When you're dead, you're gone. Who cares?

Answer 9

Barbaric, maybe, weird, maybe, culturally defined terms,but inhuman?

Only Humans practice this behavior, so like genocide it is distinctly human.

Answer 10

The size of their paychecks for doing this and scientific curiosity endorses those checks.  This practice is highly offensive to Native Americans particularly and calls attention to the bipolarity of morality issues.