Luxury Hotel's Featuring: Jerusalem Limestone MATRESSES

I was flipping through a magazine in Israel, and there was an ad for this upscale hotel in Jerusalem, and on the ad there was a huge picture of a bed/recliner/couch thing of stone (supposed to look like the stone from the western wall).

I'm sure the ad was going a different way. But the second I saw the ad, i tore it out and decided it was a GREAT representation of beds in Israel. After a weak of sleeping on the hardest, most uncomfortable mattresses...i am actually looking forward to sleeping on the small, hardly reclining airplane seat with no leg room.

Why are mattresses so hard here? Do people actually find it comfortable? or just get used to it? It is particularly healthy to sleep this way or is it just what they have?

In a fit of rage I would love to express my feelings of how beds display the progressiveness of a society (but do realize that I am just bitter and miss my matress, and thus these statements are extremely unfounded).

But think about it, we've moved from grass and dirt floors and hides as mattresses/blankets to hanging sacks to wooden/plaster floors to rugs and blankets to wooden floors to beds to beds with mattresses to softer mattresses to waterbeds and temperpedic mattresses....are these changes really necessary? is one a lot better than the other? are the higher end ones just expensive frivolties that rich people (societies) can waste their money on? or are they really a sign of people taking better care of themselves...

i just know my back hurts and i'm looking forward to a LONG massage when i get back..
hint hint