I wonder when the fascination for the dead left place to our modern sense of body sacredness. Is it our because of WW1 which killed so many young men and left many mutiled, or the Spanish flu afterwards, or because modern medicine taught us a thing or two about hygiene?
""4) Why do crows gather around their dead? Certainly one reason is that the death of a crow can offer a “teachable moment” that other crows use to learn that the place and responsible party is dangerous. You can read more about this behavior here.""<p><a href="https://corvidresearch.blog/2015/09/26/why-crows-gather-around-their-dead/" rel="nofollow">https://corvidresearch.blog/2015/09/26/why-crows-gather-arou...</a>
Wow, that's disrespectful.<p>It gives me a different perspective on the catacomb's ossuary, which is a very cool tourist attraction but at least not demeaning to a complete body.<p>At the exit, there is an honor system return bag for people to deposit bones they stole as souvenirs. If you could imagine your femur would be stolen by a future tourist.