Bog Person, Iceman, Mummy, Or Fossil?
5 comments December 31st, 2008at 08:29pm Posted by Eli
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If you had the option of becoming a bog person, an iceman, a mummy, or a fossil after your death, which would you choose?
Sure, bog people, icemen and mummies are all much cooler and better-preserved than fossils, but I don’t think they have the same eternal staying power.
Which is why, if given the choice, I would choose fossilization. Millions of years from now, the sentient cockroaches that rule the earth might someday unearth my bones and arrange them in a threatening pose in one of their museums, possibly holding a shoe and bearing a label like “Fearsome 21st-Century Predator” or “Ruthless Mass Murderer.”
Generally speaking, I don’t much care what happens to my body after I’m done with it, but the idea that it might someday scare the children of a distant and unimaginable future kinda tickles me.
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5 Comments
1. julia | January 1st, 2009 at 7:23 am
See, me I think a bog-giant-cave-sloth would be really awesome. Likewise a cave sloth mummy. Or a slothsickle.
2. Bill | January 1st, 2009 at 12:36 pm
Just make me think of this Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
3. charley | January 3rd, 2009 at 6:48 pm
nice pic, i’m very jealous.
am i missing the backstory on this? it’s very interesting.
oh, and bog person, it’s my heritage.
4. Eli | January 3rd, 2009 at 6:51 pm
Thanks. Not much of a backstory – I just happened to read Olivia Judson’s NYT blog/column about how hard it is for anything to get fossilized, and it put the idea in my head.
5. taylor | February 10th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
i dont think that this shit is cool i think that it is dum how cares if they are die i sure dont