It is interesting to me that everyone who speaks up against the actions taken in Living Memory, cannot really process that the Endless are not living beings. They wish to blame it upon writing, they wish to compare it with Emet-Selch's actions, and it's such a screaming false symmetry that is stunning.
If anything, Emet and Sphene's actions were almost equivalent, albeit different solutions to simply recover/preserve the dead.

There is no life in Living Memory, at all. There's nothing for us to hold onto the prospect of saving genuinely, all there's there cannot be saved because there is NOTHING there.
It is the equivalent of a Ghost, the best thing you can do to pay respects is to shut down the lights, close the door, and preserve those who passed in your heart as you move on with grief.

The living remains, the dead are set to have their rightful rest. Even for basic literacy, this is not hard to comprehend and it stuns me how people twist the topic of such a beautiful zone that much. For me, and in my personal opinion only, a vastly better zone than Tempest and Ultima Thule.