[ No, death doesn't remove personhood, that's why they hadn't desecrated the body. Maybe it was all the death in her life lately, but when a person stayed dead, she just didn't see a point in preserving a body when something could be learned from it. ]
(I didn't know him, so I can't say how he would have felt about all of this, but if it were me who'd died out there and I knew that the others could learn something about all of this, I would have told them to do it.)
[ She would have begged them to do it, and fought anyone who balked at the idea. When the soul is gone, or whatever makes them who they are, then all that's left is flesh and bone. It's just a body. ]
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( I didn't know him, so I can't say how he would have felt about all of this, but if it were me who'd died out there and I knew that the others could learn something about all of this, I would have told them to do it. )
[ She would have begged them to do it, and fought anyone who balked at the idea. When the soul is gone, or whatever makes them who they are, then all that's left is flesh and bone. It's just a body. ]