> My thought is that there's something good in the notion, not just of the dead not being forgotten, but of having the dead impart some sort of cost or burden o

> My thought is that there's something good in the notion, not just of the dead not being forgotten, but of having the dead impart some sort of cost or burden on the living. Sure, as long as "the cost or burden on the living" is merely that of remembering our debt to the dead for their contributions to our present-day lives. (Cf. President Obama's "You didn't build that" remark during the 2012 campaign [0], which triggered outrage by opponents who quoted it out of context.) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_didn%27t_build_that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_didn%27t_build_that