Where’s the Respect for the Dead?
It seems that this obsession with how other’s live has been going on quite some time, it’s not just connected to the age of Orlando Bloom and Paris Hilton. Brits are notorious for rummaging through burial sites for artefacts to show the world in the name of “research” and “education”.
Perhaps we do learn something from these artefacts about how another civilization lived, and how they believed they would be in death – but I doubt that any ancient Egyptian would have ever thought his mummified remains would be displayed for the entire world to see on international news channels. Most of today’s celebrities would become recluses rather than face the media without at least a fine layer of cosmetics and abundance of ultra-shine hair product. Even the general population of women in the western world go nowhere without a touch of lipstick. I have wonder how they’d react if they knew this public degradation in the name of science could be done to them! Is there a niche market waiting to be tapped into whereby when you’re dead, you remain in peace rather than someone disturbing your last resting place because they are curious to know what was so special about you?
Many cultures have a great respect for the dead. What happened to ours? We think it’s OK to remove bibles from graves of holy men (such as St Cuthbert’s which occasionally tours the country instead of being with his remains where it belongs), and to even travel to faraway places to remove the dead from the tombs that were created to protect their afterlife. Perhaps it was many decades ago that the damage was started when the tomb was discovered by British born Howard Carter in the 1920s, but in the movement of King Tut’s body to a climate controlled environment yesterday, experts momentarily revealed his remains to the public, showing that we may not condone grave robbing, but we are happy to benefit in some way from it.
Finally we seem to be progressing with the site.Toni made the suggestion that I change the omnilux page