A lot of people genuinely do believe in dumb shit like ghosts, and if you do, this does seem like the reasonable and compassionate course of action. Old timey sexism was the stuff of nightmares.

But this could also be the rationalization for their own coping mechanism for either personal experiences or the horror of actually opening a not-totally-bullshit history book and finding out how awful the world is and often has been.

I don’t really see a problem.