If that’s your line of thought, then why stop at burials? All human culture has little basis in the natural world.
Unless you’re a Nihilist and Darwinist, I assume you think some values are more important than others?
Unless you’re a Nihilist and Darwinist, I assume you think some values are more important than others?
And indeed, I think a lot of aspects of culture are dumb and that society would be better off without. It would be better if the world returned to the basics instead of endlessly wrapping itself around an axle of contrivances.
If you follow Parfit, you choose that the latter kind is the only kind to care about, and so caring about burials for the sake of the one buried would be nonsensical to you.
I think you have some odd definitions.