This guy plans

I want to believe this is true but you raise a good point.
Guy who finds body & thinks to take earrings: should I buy this guy a coffin or a new flatscreen. Also... is that god?

It’s a pirate thing. That’s why pirates are always depicted with big gold earrings. The gold was intended to be enough to pay for the coffin.

Not just pirates, but sailors in general, who were likely to die in a foreign port.