I agree. As a kid, I was absolutely fascinated with looking a Egyptian mummies in the museum. But after a while, I realized they were real people. Today when I see them I want to say let these people rest in peace. Yes, it's ok to "study" their corpses for a while to gain understanding of the past, but they should not be display items like a painting. They were human beings, not artifacts.
I think it's time to give this "Ice Man" a decent burial that any human deserves.
Just my quirky feelings, I guess.
This is probably my number one reason for preferring cremation. I'd really hate to think that my remains might escape the complete decaying process with all the Sure-jell they inject ya with in the funeral homes.
The American Museum of Natural History in New York used to have an exhibit with a mummified Peruvian, apparently a copper miner, in a block of copper ore, encased in Plexiglas. They didn't give you any warning, you just turned a corner in an obscure section of the Central American section and came face to face with the poor guy. His hair was in perfect condition and his skin only slightly yellowed. I remember running into him when I was about 14 and feeling slight pangs of guilt and very little morbid curiosity. I hate to sound politically correct, but I was somewhat relieved about twenty years later when the wave of third world sensibility forced them to take him off display.
In those days, before the Government of Egypt made a major dump on the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum was the go to place for Egyptology. They did not, however, exhibit mummies, only wonderful artifacts and sarcophagi and coffins.