Huh. If you have a few minutes you don't mind losing to the void, do have a look at an essay entitled 'The Rationalist Way of Death.'
The first thing that I noticed is this: 'As for the business of seeing the body and saying goodbye, and the trouble and expense of coffins and flowers and funerals: what are they but relics of morbid superstitions that we should have got rid of centuries ago.'
Well, that busyness is a relatively recent growth; it's a growth industry in fact. All those superstitious centuries ago, no one bothered with any of that. As we've grown more and more sentimental, godless, and stupid, we've gussied up the funeral so that now it's really just an excuse for some branding and an upsell or three.
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