[mmanager]

The phrase became a political slogan for Ronald Reagan, who portrayed Gipp in the 1940 movie "Knute Rockne, All American."

[the invisib1e hand]

ok. so the same minds that bring you global warming now want to dig up everyone's bodies to find out if they licked stamps or drank coke...

I mean, can't you even have privacy when you're freaking dead?

[labette]

Note to my descendants:
You may speculate and scratch your personal itches all you want.
But don’t dig me up to prove your point.

[PAR35]

Pre-dig thread here:

Notre Dame football star Gipp’s body exhumed for DNA testing
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1909863/posts

[longtermmemmory]

how many “false ancestors” have we had to suffer over the years.

Just look at the ridiculous Jefferson debate finding someone was within eight generations. IOW meaningless for DNA. Somwhere it is said ALL of humanity is within 15 generations related.

This is about bragging and writing rights. Just look at what the sexual activists do with claiming the dead.