Quote Originally Posted by FoxtArt View Post
Mostly unrelated to this, but it's a bit absurd to me the risks we take as a society for the recovery of a corpse.
Rituals for the dead aside, my question is, what risks are your talking about?

The diving situation you cited is comprised of volunteers or maybe local search and rescue. I don't see that as having any cost to society as a whole.

Military rescues may have some monetary cost and of course there is danger to those involved, but the cost is no higher than any other operation that involves getting shot.

Diplomatic attempt at retrieving bodies really has no societal costs either, other than possibly looking weak in the eyes of some observers.

So I don't really see any risks involved for "society". I am curious to see what risks you are thinking of.