I’m with @Ron_C I’m going to be cremated so I don’t think my remains will be capable of forming any position of any kind.
And, @elbanditoroso, why is it’s the government’s business to place limits on how you can be buried? Because government is an institution, a means by which larger, more complex societies create and maintain order. Personally, I don’t really want to live in a society where everyone is able to decide, individually, on a case by case basis, according to their own personal preferences, how to dispose of their dead. Gramma dies. She was a bitch maybe. It will cost you at least 1500 dollars to cremate her and probably close to 10,000 dollars to buy a plot, have her embalmed, buy a casket and provide a proper burial for her. So maybe you don’t have the money, or she was a bitch and you don’t want to put the money out. I really like that the government prevents you from simply dumping Gramma’s body in my back yard so she becomes my problem, or dumping her in the park or the river, or burying her wherever you might want to and thereby possibly contaminating the water table and my drinking supply. You don’t get to leave Gramma on your tree lawn for your trash service to pick up.
I like that the government has rules and laws about how and under what circumstances people can dispose of dead bodies. You should think about appreciating that too. They don’t really micromanage it. They just try to make sure there are certain minimal standards. All people were pointing out is that burials have to follow certain general rules and statutes. Personally, I wouldn’t want it any other way.
If @augustlan wants to be buried, lying on her side, I doubt there is a law prohibiting that. The government is not that intrusive but I think it is there business because I think it is my business and that’s what I ask of and pay my government to do. To maintain order. That’s really all the government does when it comes to regulations regarding the burial of bodies. They just try to make sure that bodies are properly “disposed” of. Really, nothing more than that.