What is the fascination with other peoples dead?

Question

Why are people fascinated with other peoples dead, yet protective of their own? No one I know would consider having a loved one dug up and set out for view in a museum. Though it is exceptable to dig up the dead of other cultures for preservation.

Answer 1

Many people believe that since cultures are disappearing its 'their job' to keep it alive by ruining sacred burial sites. Not everyone looks at the cultural beliefs of those they are desicrating. I want my people left alone, but yet I would like to know about my culture before it was destroyed by European settlers. Its a mixed emotion about it. Dont you want to know about the lives and cultures of the past? Learning where we come from helps us know how our people have evolved over time, and it gives us a fairly accurate guess as to where our future may take us. In order to stop the mistakes of the past from happening in the future, we must first know what those mistakes were. The only way to learn from our past is largely, to dig it up. It sucks, but sometimes reality isnt nice.

Answer 2

Its all about working how our bodies work and what we can do to preserve the one of those still living - more recent.

From earlier time (ie Egyptians etc) : - Its about learning how they lived and died, and the ways in which they lived....and fixing mistakes of the past so that we dont make the same mistakes, as others have done.

It all comes down to species survival, we dig up the dead, utimately because the majority of us are afraid of dying.

Answer 3

only if the dead have been dead for a long time.ala King Tut

Answer 4

Im not very religious..but I do feel that the dead should be left in their last resting place...my opinion.

Answer 5

If someone dies, and everyone they've ever known dies (i.e. 100 years go by), what does it matter?

Answer 6

i don't know why