You've gotten your morning cup of coffee, your newpaper, and you've settled into your usual stool, smack between the Jim-Beam-smelling retiree and the closet-dust-smelling retiree. All the news today is all about the killing of that grand terrorist mastermind, Unsama ben Mollkin! You feel proud of American determination and the President for finally cracking that nut!
On the front page of the paper is a full splash feature on the bloody wreck of a face that used to belong to Unsama. You flip open to the next page and start reading up on the whole situation. It is an epic story by all accounts, one worthy of Tom Clancy, and you are absorbed by the story so long that your coffee goes cold and your retired friends have left without you.
The forty-six page article concludes: "burial at sea is intended to prevent a tomb or grave from turning into a shrine. It is best to eliminate as much evidence of his existence as possible."
You shudder at the thought of being erased from existence...