How far away is that day? Sounds like it's right around the corner the way you put it..
I agree though, there's actually this pretty cool burial practice they do in Nepal I think, they just stick the body on the side of the mountain after death and slit the neck so the blood attracts wildlife. I guess here in the states people like having a place to actually go to to visit their dead. I was actually thinking about this the other day when a couple of my friends were talking about visiting a friend who had recently passed, one of them said "yeah, I really need to go visit her, I haven't been yet", and I just thought "why do you need to visit a dead body to feel like you've fulfilled some 'need' you have?"... Or when someone asks if you want to go visit somebodies grave and you decline, it's as if it's an insult to them or something... idk.. I don't see the difference between being at the foot of the grave and simply being at home and remembering them as a person and who they were..