Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust

Having just read a story, about the burial of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, I'm feeling as disgusted as I have felt in quite some time.  Apparently, Tsarnaev was buried at a small Muslim cemetery near Doswell, Virginia.  Local residents are outraged and county officials are trying to determine if any laws were broken, so that the body can be removed from the county.  The concern is over having the body of a criminal buried in the county.

Local authorities are upset because they were not informed, before the fact, of the burial.  Is there some requirement I'm unaware of, requiring government approval for funerals?  Does every corpse have to pass a background check prior to burial?  "We're sorry, but the deceased does not meet our requirements at this time.  You might check back with us in six months to see if our requirements have changed."

How many murderers, rapists, and pedophiles have been buried in Virginia?  Do your neighbors have the right to object to who is buried in the local cemetery?  Since discrimination against the living is becoming less acceptable every day, will we now shift the focus to the deceased?  "I'm sorry sir, but our records show that your father was 17% African-American, but the plot you purchased is in the white only section.  We'll have to move the burial to the back of the cemetery."  Will there be a smoking section for cremated remains?

Tamerlan Tsarnaev is dead, deceased, departed, no longer amongst the living.  I predict that he will commit no more crimes, nor will he carry out any more terrorist attacks.  Why not worry more about taking care of the living, than punishing the deceased?  If the local residents are so worried, why not ask Tsarnaev's neighbors if they have a problem with him being buried there.  I'm betting that not a single corpse will complain unless he plays his stereo too loud at 3am.

Regardless of what we have done in life, once death claims us, shouldn't that be the end?  At that point, shouldn't reward or punishment be no longer a concern of the living?  Perhaps Hanover County, Virginia has some other problems to worry about.