Indeed. Since it was such a good idea, and kept the buildings toasty warm, what do you say about expanding the practice? Some of the live ones...you know...really are not needed any more... 
Oh you're just being silly now - you're implying that there's some kind of slippery slope from burning dead bodies to burning people alive?
It's obviously fine to burn dead bodies (lots of people do it to their relatives anyway), and obviously not fine to burn people - there's very little risk of people forgetting that subtle distinction. Also they weren't burning them because they needed to keep the buildings warm and were running low on gas, they did it because they had a load of dead babies lying around and they needed to do something with them.
