You bring up a number of interesting points and until your post I never realized that I was guilty of discriminating against the dead.
The shame of it all....I'm a deadist...or is that a necroist?
I feel a new tag line coming on...
Well, depending on the age of your dictionary, the definition of that other -ism may be 'the belief that race provides an inherent hierarchy' then death certainly is inherently hierarchical. The living are hier[sic] than the dead.
Either we are equal or we are not Good people should be armed where they will, with wits and guns. NRA KMA