Cremations were quite normal in many parts around the world, actuslly. In Europe, Christian influences caused a ban on them, but for ages cremations were the way to go. They make more sense anyway: people who cremate their dead are less likely to catch diseases from rotting corpses than people who handle put the (diseased) body back in the ground.
and hell even a hundred years ago graveyards in cities started becoming problematically full, that’s literally why cremations was invented.
Cremations were quite normal in many parts around the world, actuslly. In Europe, Christian influences caused a ban on them, but for ages cremations were the way to go. They make more sense anyway: people who cremate their dead are less likely to catch diseases from rotting corpses than people who handle put the (diseased) body back in the ground.