Good point. Not like it'd be accepted anyway.

Not true.

You'd be surprised at how much innovation is in the industry, particularly with respect to social media. I know: my company provides web based software to funeral homes and mortuaries. We let them design headstones online. We even put QR codes on the headstones to make it easy to find the deceased individual's online obituary within the cemetery.

I attended a talk Bob Sutton (Stanford professor) gave on innovation. One of the first things he talked about was all of the times you do not want to innovate. If you're building a bridge, you probably want to build one with a design and techniques that have been proven to work. There are many other kinds of tasks where repeatability and reliability are more important than innovation.

Handling dead bodies probably falls into that category.