Quote Originally Posted by FromMyColdDeadHand View Post
Uhm, the pyramids? Catacombs in Rome? We've been burying our dead for, well, for ever. Burying the dead is one of those things that makes us human- like cave painting and making beads.

Stuff like prions seem like good enough reason to keep bodies out of the farm cycle as much as we can.
That was a select few individuals. The vast majority of people that have ever lived probably never even had a grave.