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400+ year old murder discovered

Random ChaosRandom Chaos Actually Carefully-selected Order in disguise
in Zocalo v2.0
This is neat that it was discovered :)

[url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6230307.stm[/url]

Comments

  • Falcon1Falcon1 Elite Ranger
    That is interesting. Must have been a great time to live, all the wealth and power but having to deal with every other nobleman below you wanting you dead.

    I'm a bit uncomfortable with why they are doing this though. Exhuming 21 members of a family just to run some tests is a bit unsettling for me. With my background in archaeology dealing with human remains is always a grey area. Should we be doing this? Who gives us the right to dig these remains up? I know for sure I wouldn't be too happy if someone game and dragged my boney body out of my final resting place.
  • Entil'ZhaEntil'Zha I see famous people
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Falcon1 [/i]
    [B] I know for sure I wouldn't be too happy if someone game and dragged my boney body out of my final resting place. [/B][/QUOTE]


    Of course you wouldn't be happy, you'd be dead!
  • Falcon1Falcon1 Elite Ranger
    Indeed I would. But if I was looking down from whatever fluffy cloud I was sitting on I'd be even more unhappy ;)
  • JackNJackN <font color=#99FF99>Lightwave Alien</font>
    eh... All this fuss over a rotting carcass...

    When I die I'm not worried in the least whether my body is burnt up and the ashes spread across a forest somewhere, or if I help some wild animal stay alive for another week...

    When I'm up there sitting on that stray cloud, I'll not be tied to that old cage anyway.

    ;)

    Seriously, I think we spend way too much time and effort in reverance and preservation of the physical remains.

    The only thing I DON'T want is for people to be burdened financially and what not over how to clean up the mess.

    For the dust we were made and to the dust we will return. Might as well burn me up and make me fertilizer for some conifer...

    It's cheap, it's efficient...

    :)
  • FreejackFreejack Jake the Not-so-Wise
    I'm kinda of the same mindset, I'm fine with a pine box buried deep enough the dogs don't dig me up...

    Jake
  • WORFWORF The Burninator
    I didn't do it...

    Worf
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    So long as it doesn't disturb any after life, I don't think I would mind being exhumed in many hundreds/thousands of years if it helped people of the time understand history a bit better. That's what we get out of digging up old burial sites, tombs, etc. Being dug up for no good reason would be annoying, though.
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