And it slips through our fingers

[Lathriel]

I love old buildings and when I moved from Europe to Canada I really missed them. It is not because I want to embalm the past. It is because these old buildings show us how it used to be and it also partly shows how people used to live and how they progressed. I am always curious about how things used to be and it is not just because I want to embalm it. I think it is a good idea if people know and can see how we progressed. And conserving old buildings, furniture,clothing etc helps us (at least I hope so) understand ourselves better. So of all the tourists who visit heritage sites I am sure there are also quite a few who are simply interested in how it once was.

But of course there are also those who tend to romantisize the past and those are also the "embalmers".