Because even in death, the common people are not allowed to truly have their own agency. For example, I'd very much like to have my body's flesh directly go bac

Because even in death, the common people are not allowed to truly have their own agency. For example, I'd very much like to have my body's flesh directly go back to the earth shortly after I die. However, I doubt that's possible if I am not murdered somewhere, as there's not really a mechanism for that to be ensured. We are too attached to these bodies and identities that we temporarily inhabit, and the worst part of it is that many people are so attached to their own identity, that they would force others to be attached to theirs in the same way. It's right there in the way that nearly everyone talks about the ideas of heaven and hell - as if our current physical identity crosses that bridge with us. How could it? Let's presume for discussion that this idea of an afterlife is real, that there is a core consciousness inside piloting these meat mechs. That consciousness separates from our flesh, our interface to the world, our storage medium for memories, when we die. How in the world could this bare consciousness retain the identity it left behind? As well, why would that consciousness never have another life experience ever again? Humanity's views on death have been skewed for hundreds if not thousands of years, ever since we stopped living from and nurturing the earth. We teach people that their individual identity has a much higher presence in this physical universe, than it actually can have. As a result, we have this weird quasi-preservation thing going on where even in death, we try to stave off the natural decay and decomposition of our useless flesh. Why? I understand for health reasons that we don't want to have thousands of bare, rotting human bodies laying everywhere, however I don't understand why humanity has not come up with a better system for end-of-life than "put my body in a padded box that's protected from the elements, so that it takes longer to decay". Senseless. We come from this earth in a physical context and we will go back to it no matter what we do.