Oh lol, of course FW would have wanted to save money on embalming! Heh.

I suppose it could have been religious, at that. I was shocked to find when my mother-in-law died that there are American Protestants (their pastor, in particular) who have decided religious opinions against cremation, because in his mind it was correlated with not taking resurrection seriously. (Most Protestants I know don't necessarily choose cremation, but have no real religious opinion on it.)