Exhumation Quotes

“Not since North Korean media declared Kim Jong-il to be the reincarnation of Kim Il Sung has there been such a blatant attempt to create a necrocracy, or perhaps mausolocracy, in which a living claimant assumes the fleshly mantle of the departed.”
― Christopher Hitchens

“The hauntings died down, as it were, since exhumed bones were taken off display and interred elsewhere. A lack of archaeological ghoulishness will do that.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Holidays with Bigfoot

“Imagine if we natives went to the cemeteries in your cities and dug up your beloved relatives, pulled off rings, watches, and clothes, and called them "artifacts," then carried the bones over to the university for study so we could understand you. Consider that there are more bones of native people in universities and museums for study, than there are those of us living.”
― Joy Harjo, Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems

“Нікому в Боснії не вигідні швидкі ексгумації: «Не дай Боже, — каже Ева. — Закінчилися б високі заробітки, кар’єри, поїздки на міжнародні конференції. Треба копати повільно. Має вистачити на довгі роки, до пенсії.”
― Войцех Тохман, Like Eating a Stone: Surviving the Past in Bosnia