What to do with the dead

 " So Amorpheous, what you're saying is the Matrix is a metaphor for mass burial "

Let me put it this way, Zero.  The Oracle informs us that the Matrix was originally an open network run on free software. Then it went from Heaven to Hell under Sam Altman and his rogue agents. 

But speaking of burials . . . here is some brazen lying-by-omission about the modern funeral trade

The Great Majority: Body Snatching and Burial Reform in 19th-Century Britain — The Public Domain Review

The names of William Hunter and William Smellie still inspire respect among today's doctors, more than 250 years since they made their contributions to healthcare. Such were the duo's reputations as outstanding physicians that the clienteles of their private practices included the rich and famous of mid-18th-century London.

But were they also serial killers? New research published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine (JRSM) claims that they were. A detailed historical study accuses the doctors of soliciting the killing of dozens of women, many in the latter stages of pregnancy, to dissect their corpses.

"Smellie and Hunter were responsible for a series of 18th-century 'burking' murders of pregnant women, with a death total greater than the combined murders committed by Burke and Hare and Jack the Ripper," writes Don Shelton, a historian. "Burking" involved murdering people to order, usually for medical research.