Does it make more sense

(in light of the Chinese majority’s collective and continual burning of offerings during the months of the Chinese Festival of Hungry Ghosts, despite the haze drifting in from Indonesia’s land-clearing fires)

Does it make more sense, thus being said:
that for the dead and departed
we should these fires, hazes, smokes
   have started;
that to appease the departed and dead,
we the live and living should make
ourselves all miserable, choke,
   and sick?