It is a faut de mieux solution because economics
prevent use of methods employed in prosperous countries.
I'm not so sure. In respect to the disposal of the dead, you have your buriers (with optional emblaming) and your cremators. Hindus tend to cremate, Muslims bury, but Zoroastrians (aka Parsees) don't cremate (since they venerate fire). I'm not sure why they don't bury, but they expose the bodies of the deceased on so-called towers of silence. There are at most 100K parsees world-wide. A Parsee friend whose father died, about two decades ago, told me that the vultures weren't excaranting his and other exposed bodies, and so acid was brought in to help.
Now on to revolting practises. Eating up prime real estate in towns and cities with cemetaries full of dolled up corpses in huge metal containers. See E. Waugh's The Loved One and J. Mitford's The American Way of Death.
