Hate to say to but the guy has a point. It is a weird, unnecessarily expensive, bad for the environment, etc. People used to be "laid out"
for three days to make sure they were dead and someone would set with the body. It is a ritual that needs to be reexamined and there is a movement to put folks (formaldehyde free) quickly in the ground in a simple casket that will decompose. For me its ashes to ashes. PS - not all Jews are because they tell it straight. Get a thicker skin!