Monday, 28 January 2013

Cemetery moral debate

I'm going to use this week's blog prompt, and change it slightly to a topic that had interested me in terms of moral and ethical use of the dead's information, names and family heritage. Cemetery's have always been a place in which ethical morals or issues have been difficult to avoid. The use of cemetery data has always been questionable for me in terms of how we the living may use the data of the dead. I'm not sure if I had passed, if I would still want information about my life, religion or history to be used in areas such as data bases or research. It is difficult, if not impossible to say whether the information we have been using in my own archaeology course has been using deceased individual's information who have much the same view about my own privacy after death. I think the main question is, 'how can the give consent'? Well, they can't which is something I've been thinking about all week...

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