It might be a little off topic but, they honestly should have taken away the aspect of 'erasing peoples memories of the deceased' from the story and made it so that Living Memory was accessible to every citizen who had lost someone. What better way to reinforce the carelessness of the the citizenry with their lives due to being able to, mostly, cheat death then to come with the gut punch of 'you don't actually die when your body does, you go to Living Memory, we'll see you tomorrow'.

The only other way to really go into the 'protect my people from harm at all costs' would be to go full tilt for Sphene in which she's full on brainwashing / running a dictatorship regarding their memories, using the Regulators to silence out anything that would cause conflict, robbing the citizens of their freedom but perpetuating their ""eternal happiness and safety"".

Either would have been a much more impactful inversion of Wuk Lamat's ideology and a possible moment for her to reflect on what keeping her people's Peace and Happiness actually means and, well, how far she would go to do just that.