I'm in agreement with you on this one.

There's a chapel (Catholic I think, but don't remember for sure) in Sedona, AZ which I reached via a hiking trail in the months after my 2nd wife's death. It was a nice contemplative space, and I lit a candle for my deceased wife just for the pure symbolism of it. I did not expect any deity to notice or respond in any way and I did not expect some sort of message to reach my wife, who I am 99.9999% certain wasn't in existence to be taking messages. I just liked the idea that someone on the planet had taken a memorial action, symbolically, and that the candle would linger for a short time after I departed. It was an expression of my honoring of her memory and, simultaneously, of the fleeting nature of existence. I might have even tossed a dollar bill in the collection plate. Someone had to pay for the candle and building upkeep.