The average funeral is over $6,000. Using the average deaths per day, and the average burial plot size, if everyone who died every day got a burial that's 13811.77 sq miles of cemetery. Or a little over 1/3 the total size of Maine, A DAY.
Take that number and your population density and see how many people are displaced by an area that size. So even if we don't make it an environmental issue it's a practical issue. Wasting possible living space to have a place to keep dead bodies that does nothing else. Memorials are nice, but how many years before no one comes? Ever seen an old cemetery? Often unreadable graves to people long forgotten. So even if people don't "move on" they die too. Due to cost many people get cremated anyway. I'd rather have a practical memorial than a useless one even if you disregard the environment, it makes sense to not waste what the living need on the dead, and if the dead can give back to the living without desecration even better.
I don't know why people romanticize what they wind up as. You're dead. Just pull a Bin Laden and get dumped somewhere in the ocean; you'll wind up doing as much good or bad as any other way.
How fitting - a weeping willow on a grave
Take that number and your population density and see how many people are displaced by an area that size. So even if we don't make it an environmental issue it's a practical issue. Wasting possible living space to have a place to keep dead bodies that does nothing else. Memorials are nice, but how many years before no one comes? Ever seen an old cemetery? Often unreadable graves to people long forgotten. So even if people don't "move on" they die too. Due to cost many people get cremated anyway. I'd rather have a practical memorial than a useless one even if you disregard the environment, it makes sense to not waste what the living need on the dead, and if the dead can give back to the living without desecration even better.