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To: Jubal Harshaw

What's the difference between this and 3,000 years from now someone digging up my body and putting it on display in a museum? A bigger tomb?


17 posted on 06/27/2005 11:38:31 AM PDT by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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To: Aquinasfan
What's the difference between this and 3,000 years from now someone digging up my body and putting it on display in a museum?

If you are buried with a significant fraction of the wealth of your nation in the form of art, precious metals and jewels, then if 3000 years later the materials you were buried with are one of the largest collection of artifacts from your era, then there would be no significant difference. Otherwise, the difference is huge.

22 posted on 06/27/2005 12:10:14 PM PDT by Jubal Harshaw
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To: Aquinasfan

Well for starters you probably won't have a solid gold death mask and 4 coffins.


37 posted on 06/27/2005 1:44:37 PM PDT by bert ( "Market forces, not political majorities, will compel societies to reconfigure themselves in ways t)
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