Tsarren wrote: >Exactly. Funerals of any kind are for the people left behind, not for the >dead. > > The services are. (although people such as Churchill planned his own funeral). Whether the body is embalmed, buried, or whatever is left over from old religions. If taking the body to Deathgate is that important, there will be a big industry to handle this, and people would be as concerned about whether it happens as they are about being killed by a Morganti weapon. Holding corpses for ransom could be used as a weapon.