They seem like a douche, but the controversy does remind me how many weird issues people have about dying and the dead. In much of the world, running into a dead person isn’t that unusual, because many cultures are not so fixated on pretending that death is somehow unnatural and wrong.
Again it intersects with species chauvinism, where the fact that a bird or racoon has died causes so little reaction, that no one can be bothered to drag it off the street - nevermind properly interring the poor bugger. One might suppose that contemporary secular people, unburdened as they are with speculations about souls, could be so cosmopolitan as to approach the matter with some equanimity.
