Over my dead body

It looks like the Church of England has entered the fray regarding the new high speed rail line between London and the North of England (HS2). Apparently the Arch Bishops Council has announced that it's opposed to the line being built for a number of reasons, primarily that graves along the route will be desecrated. It's an interesting angle, you'd think taking a position that places the interests of dead people over living people would seem fairly negative but clearly death is a particular concern of the complainants. The logic (not that logic has a big role to play in this) seems to be that since people have been buried in "consecrated" ground then they would be upset if their remains were disturbed and moved elsewhere. Somewhere in that sentence the fact that these people no longer exist seems to have been lost; even if the Christian view of what happens after death is true (pretty unlikely) then the remains are still just "empty vessels", I'd be fascinated to hear how theologians would explain previous owners of these bodies could be upset or disadvantaged if what's left of the lifeless remnants of their bodies are moved or even destroyed (by cremation for example). Now I can understand living relatives getting upset if undue irreverence were shown during the moving process but it must be impossible to lift a single sod of earth on this crowed little island without disturbing the residual molecules of some long since deceased Neanderthal, Pagan, Roman, Viking, Saxon or other immigrant worker, perhaps they can give the decomposed corpses jobs collecting tickets, might breath a bit of life into the whole thing.