Comment by sho_hn
This is kind of my idea for how to update funeral rites in the time of science: When someone passes, fully sequence a number of samples of their genome and put the data into a really good archival medium. To me, this feels like a great way to preserve information about loved ones worth caring about (and potentially useful to their descendants), more so than the physical remains.
A family mausoleum full of ancestral DNA would be quite nice and meaningful, even if many other things about the person are lost. It's probably how I'd like to be "buried".
Maybe this is the suitable medium.
I really like the concept. But it also sort of makes me sad - what about all the DNA we haven't archived, which could hold so many secrets about solving diseases? Of course we don't all want it sequenced when we're alive because of the privacy concerns.