The purpose of the rites of the dead is to help the living with their grief. Now, it is certainly no accident that thinking people of all major cultures have rejected popular supernatural beliefs, since from the point of view of reason such beliefs are extremely problematic. So, some feminists urge, don't be a sucker. But I'm afraid it's a bit more complicated than that. Note secondly that appealing to reason is not the same as parroting Eurocentric bias.
Science is a good contemporary example.
Note that advocating reason does not imply that all rationally-drawn conclusions are true . Truth is a separate and complex issue. The point is not which claims are true or false, since we may never know that. Finally, the charge that upper-class males have defined reason itself on their own terms implies that there has been agreement among philosophers about the nature, source, and limits of reason. Philosophers are the very people who have argued that reason is not necessarily the sole method of attaining knowledge, and that we need a broader definition of knowledge.