It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the energy of the soul is indestructible.
Where I grew up, in a remote village at the back of a valley, the old still thought the dead needed attending to - a notion so universal, it's enscribed in all religions. If you didn't, they might exact revenge upon the living.
Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition.
We usually say of ancient persons, that they have already one foot in the grave, and the rest of their life is nothing else but the bringing of these feet together.
A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.
Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.
That the God-man died for his people, and that His death is their life, is an idea which was in some degree foreshadowed by the older mystical sacrifices.
They definitely mean to maintain that the process called death is a mere severence of soul and body, and that the soul is freed rather than injured thereby.
I can't explain it, but spiritually it makes sense - though I don't understand how it does make sense.
The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.