Yeah, but all those people laying flowers? If someone plugged me to a lie detector, put a gun to my head and said "You lie, you die! What do these pictures suggest?", I'd answer "Yup, looks like a funeral". Not a second wasted. Cause I don't wanna die.
We also saw that the statue is actually destroyed in the movie. If the whole statue was used for a memorial for a dead Superman, then who destroyed the statue and where does the movie go from there where someone has obviously destroyed it while Superman is dead.



