In the instance of cremation, you are saying goodbye to a person and not using them as a means to an end, it is a form of respect. The individual isn't commodified on a practical level (though the funeral industry has something to say about that).

I have a feeling people are only unconcerned about ex-urine water because they are unaware and trying to improve awareness is not likely to help.

Because the earth is no longer remotely close to where the person died, not around the sun, not in the solar system, and given the universe is constantly expanding, millions of miles from where they died.

So somehow ghosts are both non-corporeal yet affected by gravity.

So you think ghosts have mass? Or rather near zero mass?

Because it takes massive amounts of gravity to affect photons, you won't see the gravity of earth keeping photons in place like say a person.

But anything with near zero mass like a photon pretty much ignores anything but massive amounts of gravity.

I can respect big foot hunters, they believe in him and thus devote their time to finding him. I can't on the other hand understand some friends of mine who thought, again casually, that there were dinosaurs in Africa. If I thought that I'd be looking for them right now.

Over time, though, I've talked to and read about people who view ghosts much in the same way that they view living people. Mostly benign, but possibly harmful if you piss them off. So people live in homes where they believe that there's a ghost around, but they don't mind. They chat with them, etc.

I come from an evangelical Christian background, so this mindset was really surprising to me.

How many people want to be reminded of that every time they come home, or when they see their family resting or playing in their apartment, or when guests come over and the subject of their apartment comes up, or when they just reminisce about its history?

Many people actually know someone who's committed suicide themselves. How many of them want to be constantly reminded of that?

Such reluctance doesn't necessarily have anything to do with believing in ghosts.

On the other hand, there is something known as the "contagion heuristic"[1], which is "a psychological heuristic leading people to avoid contact with people or objects viewed as "contaminated" by previous contact with someone or something viewed as bad". There's also the "law of contagion"[2] which is "a folk belief axiom found in magical thinking which suggests that, once two people or objects have been in contact, a magical link persists between them"

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contagion_heuristic

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_contagion

Using such a view, past deaths on the same land in a different configuration are less "ghosty" as they no longer share as much in common with the suspect environment.

But by that argument, the landlord and/or builder should be paying up for their negligent design!

  $ ping localghost

    ping: cannot resolve localghost: Unknown ghost

If I lived in one, would that have significant negative impact on my social life? Loss of status? Prejudices transfering to me as the tenant? People avoiding contact? Would it be unproblematic to invite people over?