Hahaha. XD
Some cultures think that sort of thing is totally okay. Others believe it is best to chop up their dead into bite-sized vulture treats and then ground up their bones to make it into something more edible/appetizing for the birds as well--nothing left behind! (Certainly would save a lot of otherwise useful dirt if we didn't have to have everybody in a bit of ground set aside just for them...)
But some people are oddly sensitive about that sort of thing. *Shrug*
Personally, dead is dead and a body doesn't do a dead man (or woman) any good, I think. I would probably prefer my body not be handled much after I die, if I have any say in it... I'll probably not care much then, but it just seems sort of weird that I would spend my entire life self-conscious and trying to conceal myself and hide everything... only to have people deal with it like it doesn't matter anymore afterward. Also, I don't want THAT to be the memory left behind (specially if I'm 90 or something). XD XP
Honestly, though, I wish that burial of the dead was still left to the family or the deceased and more personal. I think I'd like to be set on a raft and cremated on the water, and heck, I'd even think it was good to be buried if I could just be buried under the tree with the dogs on that hill over my parent's house or something... (just not a cemetery; it seems like a jailhouse or a city/apartment complex for bodies. So impersonal. O.o )
Or maybe under an apple tree, so I could laugh at people eating those apples when I'm good and gone. XD XP
Really though... my Grandpa couldn't be buried the way he wanted because it wasn't legal. He said he wanted to be laid under the sky and to let the animals carry him away, back to where he came from... and he and my Grandma had a hundred acres or some odd such, so there would've been plenty of space to do that away from others, so they wouldn't be horrified by the sight of some body. But it's wasn't legal. Ah, well... so much for rights. Our veterans can't even die the way they want to anymore.
