It matters a lot to those who are grieving.

Consider that funerals may have developed over millennia as a component of the grieving process. There is nothing necessarily religious about them.

Reminded me of the famous quote by Twain: "When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."