I gotta agree. As rotten as most of the Medici's were, the predelection of scientists to disturb graves--of people not that ancient either--is kind of disturbing.
You have to think that these people when they died, didn't expect their great-great....grand-kids to dig them up again just out of curiousity.
It's happening all over Europe, people who were given a decent Christian burial are now being exhumed, all in the name of science. I don't think the science to be learned for this makes up for the disrepect of the dead.
Knowing whether a Medici was poisoned, or had gout or arthritus, doesn't benefit the living enough to disturb private graves...just because they died centuries ago.
You wouldn't want your mother dug up by scientists curious about her ailments and anatomy, would you? Why is it then OK for your great-great-.....grandmother?
It wouldn't bother me in the least to have any of my ancestors exhumed and examined, especially if the findings could help with filling in historical gaps.
I don't understand why people find this distasteful. After all, they are merely dead bodies. Their souls have gone on to their just rewards.