Question on cremation practices...?

I would love to have a tomb like Hatsheput's, but since that isn't practical, cremation is fine. I would actually prefer to be fed to the birds as in Tibetan Buddhism.

You're right. What do you propose to do with a dead body? It's true that the body is just a shell of our soul but when the body dies, you have two choices. Fill up precious land with coffins that are rarely visited or cremate the body and bury or spread the ashes harmlessly back to the Earth. I guess you could do like sailors or the mob does and dump the body in the sea for the sharks. When I die I want to be cremated and have my remains shot out of a canon on the 4th of July. Go out with a blast. Death really is a gruesome topic isn't it? It's a good thing that the soul moves on.

There probably wouldn't be so much of a problem if you were sure you were getting your relative, but often it's only a sample, and they do sometimes do 2 or 3 at a time to save on gas.

Anyone ever found a full set of teeth in there afterwards ?

Personally I'm getting buried in a degradable eco-pod - with a tree over me - this will become a forest. No expensive mahogony or gold plated handles thanks. It is such a waste.

I was thinking of a flat-pack coffin that you put together yourself, but since the bottom fell out of one of my drawers I decided against it.

Re- Fed to birds. Known as a sky burial. Very popular in early times as they thought the spirit departed when the flesh was gone. The bones were then collected and buried in a pot.

There is no problem with cremation. The Bible makes it clear that your body returns to dust after you die. (Eccl 12:6,7) Your soul returns to the Father who gave it to you. The tradition in Bible times was burial, but that in no way makes cremation wrong. Be sure to make your wishes known to your family. Cremation just speeds up the natural process.

Most of the objection to cremation was founded on the idea of physical resurrection on Judgement Day. Without a corpse to resurrect they reasoned that the deceased wouldn't come back. That's my recollection, in any case.

That, and the mortuary business lobbied heavily against it when it first was introduced in the US.

I agree. I would personally want myself to be cremated rather than making my loved ones spend big bucks on a box I will just decompose in.

Well, you're right, it seems...

I haven't dug my wife up for a viewing once in the ten years since I buried her.

She would be just as well-off cremated, I suppose.

its really a personal decision...this is relig you know...I want burial...My gramma was cremated...long story....but I will see her again!

sense? who told you religion has to make sense?