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Funerals and funeral customs are not for the dead,
They are for the living.
As human animals, we use ceremony to cope with the big events of life, including death. Buddhist monks will sit with the dead waiting for the spirit to leave the body before the person is *really* dead. The aboriginies of the South Pacific would eat their dead relatives so that they would achieve immortality by living on in the tribe.
Today we enbalm and preserve our dead in concrete vaults and rust proof caskets so that they don't actually 'die', even though our brains know that they are dead.
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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." – C. S. Lewis
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