Ambivalent about the display of 'mummies'

It's disrespect in my book. They wouldn't do it with Christian corpses, so why disinter and show those from other religions in museums? |Plus robbing the graves of grave goods. There's no reason why they can't carry out their tests behind closed doors with dur respoct and create replicas to show. Then, return the dead person to the same land they were buried in (or as close as possible) with their burial goods. Prefereably in a secret location, to prevent pilfering.

I dosen't bother me, once I'm gone, I will have no further need for my "meat suit", if my bones or preserved body is of any use then I'm fine with it.

DIfferent peoples though differently about treatment of the dead, its likely that in Neolothic cultures, not only were bones handled and rearranged in a tomb, but that if the people moved to a new area, they took some part of their ancestors with them.

Christian burials are dug up and studied before being reburied, most burials that are dug up would be destroyed by builders laying foundations for new roads and structures. I think attitudes are changing towards the ancient dead, its much less colonial and disrespectful now than it used to be.

But this leads me on to another thought, people like ancient Egyptians saw their elaborate rituals with the dead as preparing them for immortality, whilst it may not be immortality as they imagined it, in a sense they are immortal, we know who they are and how they lived. When we excavate grave goods do we imagine those things as disapearing from the afterlife and someone's spirit suddenly wondering where they put that bracelet, cauldron, spiining stuff and sword?

I dosen't bother me, once I'm gone, I will have no further need for my "meat suit", if my bones or preserved body is of any use then I'm fine with it.

DIfferent peoples though differently about treatment of the dead, its likely that in Neolothic cultures, not only were bones handled and rearranged in a tomb, but that if the people moved to a new area, they took some part of their ancestors with them.

Christian burials are dug up and studied before being reburied, most burials that are dug up would be destroyed by builders laying foundations for new roads and structures. I think attitudes are changing towards the ancient dead, its much less colonial and disrespectful now than it used to be.

But this leads me on to another thought, people like ancient Egyptians saw their elaborate rituals with the dead as preparing them for immortality, whilst it may not be immortality as they imagined it, in a sense they are immortal, we know who they are and how they lived. When we excavate grave goods do we imagine those things as disapearing from the afterlife and someone's spirit suddenly wondering where they put that bracelet, cauldron, spiining stuff and sword?