To respect the dead maybe, because leaving land for the Church could let more room for the dead instead of letting the body rot I think.
Tradition is the simpler word for it :^)
Two reasons that it might not have been reported ARE reason one they were not sure they could get help and didn't want to be alienated OR reason two they are in a mental state of a less sever form on stockholm's syndrome
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As a step in the relationship