Reply #5: Europeans dig up their own dead all the time. [View All]

[Bridget Burke]

And I'm saying this as a Euro-American.

Formerly, you were buried in the church yard for a few years, then the bones were removed & stacked compactly. Otherwise, graves would take over too much good land after a few generations. The rich & famous got special tombs--usually because they paid for them. But even saints were dismembered to supply relics.

Ever see "Hamlet"? Alas, poor Yorick was losing his plot to make room for Ophelia.

However, it's rude to dig up somebody else's ancestors.