...The great Shiki-sama saying over and over that she doesn't know... First time for everything.
This matter isn't black or white. It is gray.A problem of "definition".
Dead men tell no tales and corpses have no opinions, but if a free will were to somehow dwell in a corpse, and personally ask for emancipation, I presume I would use my authority as a yama to officially send her forward.
But, well, speaking strictly in terms of the cycle of reincarnation...
would be taken into consideration.
Your clearly distorted image of me aside...
You and I both are inhabitants of the life after death.
Officially speaking, we shouldn't be judging the living at all.