By Jim Hagarty
A couple of years ago, researchers found the long-lost skeleton of King Richard III, who reigned for a brief period over England in the late 1400s. His grave was in a parking lot, covered by asphalt.
Richard’s remains were amazingly intact. From his bones, experts were able to do an incredibly accurate facial reconstruction and to confirm various health issues that had plagued him.
Given that and all the many cases where bodies are exhumed decades and even centuries later – they even dug up Lincoln’s body and examined it – what will future generations have to look at when so many people are being cremated these days?
What will that do to future breakthroughs in historical and even criminal research?
I, for one, hope they dig me up a hundred years from now so it can finally be confirmed that I am descended from Henry VIII, offering a reasonable explanation therefore as to why I could never drive by a restaurant without stopping in.
Or failing that, they might discover that, as I suspect, my neighbour is trying to poison me.
And he finally did me in.
Then they can dig him up and expose his shame for all the world to see.
But imagine this future item in the news. “Researchers believe they might have found the ashes of King Harlem Trotter. Or some cat litter. They have yet to run the tests.”
