zombie prevention

you may have heard about the recent grave robbings in chicago. it's a despicable act that should definitely be punished. but i am not sure why people get as worked up about it as they do.
i recently read an article in usa today by a writer for the paper who had no connection to the grave robbings, other than the weird fact that he enjoys stopping at cemeteries when he sees one just to walk around. he was all worked up about how horrible it is that this happened, and saying how much it would bother him if it happened to someone he loved, but also how much it bothered him that it happened to someone he doesn't know.
now, i say it is despicable because it is just such a cowardly act done out of greed and disrespect for other's feelings. but why is it so much worse than a regular robbery? the bodies are no longer inhabited. there is nothing else there but flesh and bone. there is no one inside the grave any more. i'm pretty sure the deceased aren't bothered by it. so why are we? the answer is probably somewhere along the lines of "the dead are...sacred...or whatever." i guess i can kinda see that, but only because i can understand why you would believe something that everyone else agrees with. but still, i think it might be a little silly.
i tried explaining this to my mom some time after my dad died. i was intrigued by her insistence on taking gifts and such to the grave, and visiting it and whatnot. everyone does that. but why? they aren't there. either you believe they go on to some afterlife, in which case they don't care what you do with their body, or you don't believe they go anywhere, in which case there is no one left to care what happens to the body.
now, i believe the truth is that we go somewhere. one of two places; heaven or hell. i believe any other thoughts are wrong. God created us, we rebelled and are still rebelling, He came to earth in the form of His son(Jesus), suffered a horribly painful and undeserved death that should be reserved for us, rose from the grave (no one in history has come up with a valid explanation for his empty grave...interesting), and is seated at the throne of God in heaven, waiting on us to believe on Him and accept Him at His word so that we might spend an eternity of bliss and joy and love with Him in heaven. if we choose to reject Him, we go to hell for eternity and suffer etrnal torment, most notably the complete absence of all hope and joy and comfort and peace and love, namely; God.
and, either way you go, heaven or hell, you won't give three rabbit pellets as to what happens to your body. welp...that's all.