I'll just give my own (non-religious) thoughts rather than quote anyone else.
I don't think skulls have any consciousness, but surviving people that knew the person in life do.
I don't believe that any part of me will survive the death of my body, but even if I'm wrong about that I strongly doubt that how my body is treated would have any effect on whatever "afterlife" there might be.
So, I really don't care how those that survive me arrange any funeral or whatever. As someone said, it's about the living not the dead. Whatever makes them feel better I guess.
That said, I do want (and have told everyone that might have any say in it) to be cremated. Several reasons. It's a waste of a piece of land to bury a body in it. I dislike the American funeral practices, with dressing up a corpse to look as if it's alive, preserving it with chemicals and encasing it in an expensive coffin. Corpses should rot and return to the ecosystem from which they came, maybe to feed a few hungry worms. As that's impossible, cremation for me.
And that also said, I do think about where I would like my ashes to be scattered. I know I'd like them to be mixed with those of my favorite dog, which I have kept. I can't make a final decision unfortunately. And yes, that's quite contradictory to my earlier remarks, but it gives me some pleasure to think about it.