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Cremation

Discussion in 'Religion & Spirituality Forum' started by jbghostrat, Jun 25, 2006.

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  1. Jun 25, 2006 at 11:27 AM #1
    jbghostrat

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    What do you think of creamation?
     
  2. Jun 25, 2006 at 12:28 PM #2
    ECILAM

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    I'd rather be cremated than buried in a box. It's not like I'll need my body anymore.
     
  3. Jun 25, 2006 at 5:33 PM #3
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    When I die, my body will decompose one way or another. I won't need it. I am registered as an organ donor, so that whatever is still "usable" of my body can go so someone who needs it. The rest should "return to dust," to nourish the earth.

    Cremation is one way of doing that. To be buried in the ground--without all the expensive packaging & chemical treatments--would be another. In some societies, they lay out their dead in a specified area to let the carrion-eaters pick the bones clean; then place the bones in a special place of honor.

    I think being embalmed & put in a box is wasteful. Since there are limits to how one can legally dispose of a body here, I opt for cremation.
     
  4. Jun 26, 2006 at 1:52 PM #4
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    when you die, do you immediately go to heaven or do you "sleep" till Jesus comes. does it matter either way what your body looks like if we are all to be made new? it says we will be given new bodies but we will be recognizable by all our friends and family?
     
  5. Jun 26, 2006 at 4:00 PM #5
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  6. Jun 26, 2006 at 5:05 PM #6
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    Take whatever parts are usable to someone and burn the rest.

    "Cemeteries are the biggest waste of real estate"
    Rodney Dangerfields character in Caddyshack​
     
  7. Jun 26, 2006 at 5:42 PM #7
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    JB, I would think that the condition of your body after death wouldn't matter at all if it was to be "made new." And surely there would be no point in having a body of any kind in an afterlife if no one would recognize you. Someone else can probably refer you to some scriptures on this.

    Just think of all the people who would be unfairly penalized if body condition mattered at all--people horribly mutilated at death, people killed in explosions, etc. If faith is all that matters, those things should be irrelevant.
     
  8. Jun 26, 2006 at 8:17 PM #8
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    Like my use of religious terminology
     
  9. Jun 26, 2006 at 8:43 PM #9
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  10. Jun 26, 2006 at 8:56 PM #10
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    I'm a registered organ donor too - I'd like to take it a step further and just have my corpse donated to science - let some med student carve me up - I don't think I'll feel anything if they do.

    any money spent on funeral expenses is wasted money IMO
     
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