I was just thinking (always dangerous).

When we bury people, they are usually dressed up to look nice in the coffin. Probably very few people are buried in a T- shirts and jeans. Therefore, any dug up dead folks (zombies, skeletons, half-rotted corpses, etc) should for the most part look like they are going somewhere.

They probably did go somewhere, but the point is that a naked skeleton is probably not what we are going to see.  Clothes tend to rot, but I'm thinking that the newer synthetic materials will last, easy, 200 years, since they are mostly plastic. Maybe if you are thinking green, you might insist on 100% natural fibers for your funeral. Just imagine all those poor folks buried in the 1970's, in their Qiana blouses,nylon stockings, and polyester leisure suits.  That stuff'll be around 'til the next millennium!

 Older corpses would probably have less clothes on them after exhumation since the clothes would have been wool, cotton, silk, or linen, but even these fibers can last a surprisingly long time. Look at how well the Egyptian mummies' linen wraps lasted, still recognizable even after they were soaked in pitch and whatnot, buried for several thousand years, shipped out to musems, and displayed for a hundred years or so. Probably you would still be able to tell, if you opened a tomb, whether the person was male or female, their social status, and the time period of their burial.

So, dress up your corpses!  Let's see those funeral clothes!
Stamp out nude skeletons and corpses in the buff!  I'm just saying...

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