Have we reach peak "wokeness" yet?

Is there anything which could be more ridiculous than the news that Kelvingrove Museum in Glasgow has removed the mummies and the parts of mummies on display because...wait for it... the mummies did not give their permission to be displayed?

Yes, apparently now there is a need to ask the long dead for their permission to be displayed. How this could be done is something I do not understand but someone, somewhere must know this...or perhaps not. It is so obviously ridiculous that surely someone needs to speak up and say just that?

People who make these decisions are no more than attention seekers. They crave publicity. Issues like this are not about permission that could not possibly be granted they are about feeling a sense of self importance and power over others. I cannot see any other reason for it. 

I am not someone who believes passionately in "returning" artifacts to their places of origin.  It is all too likely if they had not been removed they would no longer exist. Yes, some might have been buried but the vast majority would have been destroyed. They would no longer exist. Museums may be filled with "stolen" objects but they are objects which have generally been carefully studied and preserved. They have taught us a great deal about the past. 

Of course history is not really about the past at all. It is about the future. If we pack the mummies away in a box and forget about them then we might not get that vital clue about a future problem. How many children have been to a museum, seen something like one of the mummies and decided on a career in medicine or chemistry or some other science as a result. There might not seem to be any relationship between the mummies and such things but taking away that opportunity leaves us just that bit poorer. 

Prowling around the British Museum last year I was struck over and over again by the thought, "these were made by people who lived at "X" or "Y" time...they had families and friends and had to eat and drink..."  It was the very "ordinariness" of some of what I saw that made me feel that way. It was also the out of the ordinary. That first known wood wheel clock must have hung in a home somewhere. It was there because someone needed to tell the time. They had gone from looking at the sky to candles to an attempt to build something. Now we have units of measurement which are far more precise but they came about because of that early need to know when darkness was going to fall. 

Mummies have led to develops in preservation, in medicine, in our understanding of diet and much more. The idea that we simply put them away because someone thousands of years in the past cannot give permission is extraordinary. Should we stop performing autopsies now if the dead do not give their permission?