I don't brake hard with the rear, but I do use them more often when just tooling around at low speed than the front. They are just more convenient and smooth when stopping gradually. Because of that I have been getting 6-8,000 miles out of the rear pads. I'm okay with that since they are cheaper and easier to replace than the fronts. The rear pads can be replaced with fingers and anything that will pry the cups back into the calipers.
Are you serious? or just being funny?
The "R" pins pull out of the pad retaining pins with little effort and the pad retaining pins pull out of the calipers with even less effort. After that the pads practically drop out of the calipers. You then pry the piston cups back into the calipers with whatever you can fit between them and the rotor. When they are seated back far enough you simply slip the new pads in and assemble in reverse order .... it's that easy and all done with bare hands.