I'm not saying I'd ever be as interesting or important to warrant that sort of treatment. My position is that it is what was inside the skull was far more important.
Still, in any case, I just have an aversion to examining any bones or remains where one can reasonably be certain they had a name and that name is known beforehand. At some point, respect for the dead has to triumph over academic curiosity.
“Peter Burke, an amateur historian... has a theory Harold may have survived as a hermit for forty years.”
I have a theory myself. I think Harold was the person who, during his hermit days, originated the phrase, “I’ll keep an eye out for ya.”
I don’t mean to be nasty, but I’d like to see Mr. Burke’s bona fides on the subject.
My view is more like the Klingons — the corpse is just a husk. Cremation suggests that its practitioners think so as well, glad to see an alternative to that view.
Monty Python — ‘Undertaker’s Sketch’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWWg5shNWR4