If I dig you up the day after you are buried, I get in trouble, if I dig you up after 3400 years I’m a hero.
What is a respectful amount of time to wait before digging up graves and selling their contents?
I feel the same way.
When I lived in Tidewater Virginia, A British hospital site was discovered at Yorktown. Some university had begun to excavate when they got a letter from the British ambassador reminding them that it was a graveyard for their war dead.
Asked them to cease and they did.
When your family, your community, and possibly your nation have disappeared from all but specialized scholars’ memory, and there is something to be learned across several disciplines (history, biology, anthropology, sociology just off the top of this factory worker’s head) from studying your bones and the things people put in the box with you.
As for this body I inhabit, I will cease to be interested in its condition within seconds of leaving it. God will give it back better than it’s ever been when He’s ready, no matter what has happened in the meantime, and if that includes becoming a museum exhibit, well — have a good look!