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I'm super pumped they gave the pilot a proper and respectful burial. Way to make a solid impression, Texas.

Or it could have been insulting. What if the alien wasn't a christian and the poor thing is now doomed in whatever purgatory its religion dooms it to until it gets the proper rites performed? Such a small minded assumption to be made that a foreigner would practice the same rites as the locals.

As a Buddhist I find it respectful. Giving someone who you don't know the last rites anyway. Especially if it is not even the same species as you.

I can appreciate that "you do what you know" aspect, so can also see it as respectful too. However, I'm not the one that matters in these cases as I'm not a deity at the head of a religion. Some of these deities get really upset when you don't follow their teachings. Even if you've never heard of them so how could you know. Some deities tell their followers to slaughter all living humans so they can have their land. Some say to kill the non-believers. Some say to do specific things with their remains otherwise damnation for thee.

Let's just say, I would not like to be the one making that decision for fear of sending someone down an eternal path that they might not have expected

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