Funerals?

Why do we bother with funerals? When Ebenezer Scrooge was asked about helping the poor in A Christmas Carol, he suggested they may as well die and "decrease the surplus population". His comment seems harsh, but in reality it seems very consistent with atheistic/evolutionary beliefs. What would he say at a funeral? He would not bother with such a thing (until he became a believer - icky!).

What is the point of funerals? Someone lives one day and dies or lives one hundred years and dies - does it really matter? They do stuff the majority say was positive or they do stuff the majority say was negative - who cares and why? Do we celebrate a mosquito for living long or sucking blood well? Why not? Probably because they are doing what mosquitoes do and their is nothing admirable or condemnable in it either way.

What makes us any different (unless you are a Christian)? Survival of the fittest makes every person equal with every other person and with every mosquito as well! We lived as long as we lived, did what we did and died without doing anything but playing our part in the amoral evolutionary machine.

How long will the Christian's beliefs keep overflowing onto everyone else and keep this world from being the cold, meaningless and amoral place it could be?

Wouldn't it be wonderful if people were consistent in their atheistic beliefs and when someone died - no one cared?