With Slackware, that issue doesn't exist.
Configuration of the current version works exactly the same now as it did when the holy GNU revealed the ten commandmans.
I wonder how many Americans know that this was the reality in Chile, after the USA funded and supported a coup that killed the elected president in the only truly stable and functional democracy of South America at the time, in order to instate a ruthless dictator.
A meat sack is a thing.
And in our system, for every single thing which exists, there is someone who ultimately decides what to do with it. An owner.
This is the question: Who owns this thing?
Why should the relatives of the deceased have the final say on it? Is the corpse their property?
Yes, it makes the most sense for the corpse to be their property, unless the deceased has specified what to do with it instead.
You know, like it's done with everything else a dead person leaves behind.
If it were, they could choose to take it home and let it rot in the basement. Or cut it into pieces and feed it to dogs. Or use it for target practice, stuff it like a piñata.
No, laws regulate what you can and can't do with your property.
A gun is your property, but you can't shoot it wherever, cause it is dangerous.
If you let a corpse rot in your basement or throw it in the woods, that poses a danger to others or the groundwater, so you can't do that.
Your view of god seems to be very much influenced by the Abrahamic religions.
You may not agree that it's important for the deceased or their relatives to keep the body intact until it's buried.
But there's a point to be made that this simply isn't your, or the state's, or anyone else's decision.
That only the deceased and their relatives have the right to decide that, no matter what their reasons are.
Ultimately, you're proposing that as soon as the brain stops functioning, the body of the person immediately becomes state property.
And that's a hard point to make, since everything else they leave behind usually doesn't, and all of our traditions surrounding death go against it.
My nipples explode with delight!