A significant portion of the population believes both in an afterlife and that how a person’s earthly remains are treated will materially affect that experience for the deceased. To anyone that holds such a belief, this activity is causing grievous direct harm to a person that is not in a position to defend themselves.
Just because you don’t hold this belief doesn’t make it false— it can be neither proved nor disproved by any known method (short of dying yourself). Society has generally agreed to respect each individual’s beliefs in these cases, and each person is entitled to some direction of their own affairs after they have passed; this is why wills are enforceable.
Just because you don’t hold this belief doesn’t make it false— it can be neither proved nor disproved by any known method (short of dying yourself). Society has generally agreed to respect each individual’s beliefs in these cases, and each person is entitled to some direction of their own affairs after they have passed; this is why wills are enforceable.