Why don't they cremate the dead bodies in the Naruto Universe?

[Senju clan wood]

The bodies of dead ninja are supposed to have many secrets. So why don't they just cremate them. The war would have been over already if they had.

 

[Itachi Namikaze]

Because they wanted Kabuto to be able to resurrect them.

 

[Shunsin no Shisui]

I dnt know about you, but i would hate to get burned evn when im dead.

 

[Senju clan wood]

I dnt know about you, but i would hate to get burned evn when im dead.

That's why I said in the Narutoverse.

 

[dowhatupreach]

i even don't know how kabuto got deidara's dna. he must have been pretty zealous to dig some graves.

 

[Floydical]

I see your point, but I don't think cremating them would solve all the problems your suggesting.

First off, its almost always the case that the group in control of a dead body are the victors in the battle. So if your side defeats the enemy, you don't want to cremate their bodies because you want them for research. Only in cases like Asuma's death would they even consider cremation. But since Asuma was able to be buried in Konaha, within the barrier, there was no real reason to cremate him. Not to mention, that battle was a fluke anyway, considering pain recalled Hidan and Kakuzu. If he didn't do that, all of those Konoha soldiers would have died.

Your other point about Edo Tensei can also be worked around even if a body is cremated. We know that Kabuto almost certainly did not infiltrate Konoha and steal Asuma's DNA from his grave. Rather, he almost certainly gathered some of his blood from the battlefield that he was killed at, therefore cremating a body surely does not erase all existence of a body, leftover blood being one of them.

 

[-The Agent-]

Hmm to pay respect to the body of the fallen shinobi?

 

[Honord Sage]

Most Oriental cultures believe in burials in and ancestor worship, they even have days when the family brings food and drink to the grave to celebrate a new birth in the family a showing the dead that the family is prospering. You just don't go up against tradition.