@ a funeral wut does ashes to ashes dust to dust mean???

"Ashes to Ashes, Funk to Funky, we know major Tom is a junkie, Strung out in Heaven's high, reaching an all time low..."

It means that basically, the earth and everything on it (including people) were originally created from the same ashes and dust particles that everything else in the universe is made of, and in the end, whenever that may be, ashes and dust are what we will be again.

It's a reference to the story of the creation of man.

In the book of Genesis in the Bible, God created Adam from dust. Dead bodies decompose, fertilizing the ground (well, they would, if they weren't embalmed and entombed).

Ashes/Dust are two words used in the same way here.

People come from dust, in the form of Adam's creation. People die and are returned to the ground to become dust again.

When Adam sinned in the garden of eden God told him that he was made from the dust and to the dust he would return.

Gen 3:19

1 corinthians 15:47 Explains that all men are made of dust and our bodies return to the dust.

God created us from the dust of the earth and when we die the clergymen commands our body back to the ground saying from ashes to ashes and dust to dust meaning from ashes we were made and ashes we will return to.

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust -- A phrase from the English burial service, used sometimes to denote total finality. It is based on scriptural texts such as 'Dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return' (Genesis 3:19), and 'I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee' (Ezekiel 27:18).

It means that originally we came from dust (ashes) and after death we will return to dust.

It means you will return to dust after death. Here is a poem that might help you understand.

People kill things everyday, from life to idle time.

Some things die anyway, from life to idle minds.

It really couldn't hurt to die, no more than it hurts to live.

The people left always cry, when there's nothing left to give.

Death is just the final sleep, from dust to dirt we go.

In little piles of dirt we sweep, and the wind outside still blows.

And the wind kills time itself, it eats away this earth.

And everything that's known as wealth, the wind will turn to dirt.

To know death is to know the wind, that whispers through the trees.

'Cause death is just another friend blowing in the breeze.

It means that we came from dust and we will return to dust. God formed us from the earth.

It begins in the Bible. When Adam and Eve sinned and ate of the forbidden fruit that God told them not to eat, He punished them by taking away eternal life in their earthly bodies. Adam was formed from the dust, or dirt of the earth, by God our creator in the image of God himself. Eve was created by God from Adams rib. But when they sinned by disobedience, God threw them out of the garden of eden and told them that they would die and that they would return to the dust of the earth from which they were made. It is in the book of Genesis the3rd chapter,the19th verse.