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After Christ Jesus' Resurrection nowhere is anyone buried nor entombed. There is only one account of bodies being buried - Ananias and Sapphira and two prepared for burial-Stephen Acts 8, Dorcus Act 9:39, and dead bodies baptized

Jesus rose Mat 27:53 and many graves were opened and saints arose. This may have put an end to entombment.

Joh 5:28 (Graves shall hear His voice)

The dead in Christ Rise from sleep - nothing is written about graves being opened...

1Th 4:13-17

2Th 2:1

1Cor 15:20-23,29

1Cor 15:51-53

Joh 14:3

Php 1:23

Php 3:10-11

Tit 1:2, 2:13

 Rom 8:11

Jude 1:4

Rev 1:5-7

Rev 14:13

Rev 19:1-10

Rev 20:1-6

      In 1 Cor 15 Paul uses the word "sow" six times.

1Cor 15:36 Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:

1 Cor 15:37 And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain:

1 Cor 15:42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:

1 Cor 15:43  It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:

1 Cor 15:44  It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.

Certainly the context of 1 Cor 15, deals with the future resurrection of the dead.

If we are concerned about buriel, we should ask, "When is the natural body sown?" Paul refers to an ongoing process three times. "Sowest" is ongoing - speaking of the ongoing death of the natural man, when the new birth and spirit man takes place....  And 3 times "Sown" - a Present activity. Never in a past tense "was sown" ....

Thus Paul is not speaking of sowing as in burying, but in dying to the old nature of sin. This is what Paul deals with often in Romans 5 through 8 for example.

So, Paul is not insinuating that Christians must be buried each day to allow for the resurrection.

(The OT scriptures and lifestyle of Jews was to place the dead bodies in tombs or caves.) But we do not read of this being done after Jesus' Resurrection....

1Cor 15:42-44 Here Paul compares the Natural body against the Spiritual Body.

At the end of Chapter 15, Paul encourages our ongoing life in overcoming sin. Paul does not encourage believers to be buried after death, but to die to the sin nature through The Life and resurrection of Jesus and through The Spirit dwelling within believers.