with an obvious limited amount of earth and an ever increasing world population- do you anticipate the government stepping in to enforce cremation? would u mind having to share a grave site- and how would u feel about someone being burried on top of you- or your bones being unearthed a couple of hundred yrs from now
2006-07-27 08:47:52 · 35 answers · asked by fringefan1 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
that is a very good question and something i NEVER though of.....wow...i bet they will eventually step in and make it mandatory....or make people shares graves, or start digging them up and throwing away decomposed bodies to bury newer ones....when that time comes who the hell would know or be able to say anything against it anyway? GOOD QUESTION!
2006-07-27 08:50:36 · answer #1 · answered by brandiejs1979 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Why is cremation used to define the burning of a dead person into ash? I think some cannibal came up with the word. Sounds like a process that's used to make cheesecake.
I think you really should honor the family or the deceased person's wishes/beliefs. For example, if it's against the person's religion to cremate, that person shouldn't be cremated.
Personally, I would choose to be cremated because my belief is that once my physical body is dead, my spirit/soul is somewhere else.
2006-07-27 08:55:58 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am not worried about what happens to this body when I die...I know it will be resurrected incorruptible, irregardless of whether it is cremated or not.
Job 19:26 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
1 Corinthians 15:52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
Romans 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
2006-07-27 08:53:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure about any of that. I choose cremation for very different reasons. When I am gone, I am gone. I don't want my loved ones visiting my grave. My mother died 3 years ago, and as she died from cancer, she had time to plan her own funeral. She was cremated. Her ashes were scattered in places that she loved during her lifetime.
I don't really care where my ashes are scattered so long as they are. I want my loved ones to remember me, but go on with their lives without feeling guilty because they didn't visit my grave this week, or because they moved out of the area and are not there to take care of me.
2006-07-27 08:53:50 · answer #4 · answered by shirley_corsini 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
--Actually I am against cremation. The human body is made up mostly of water. I would prefer a process that removed the water from the body then you could do whatever you wanted. When people start talking about the shrinkage of water on the planet, remember that the more people walk, the less water in the park.
2006-07-27 08:52:27 · answer #5 · answered by raiderking69 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like the idea of cremation, for all the reasons you mentioned. I don't want my bones in a museum 100 years from now.
Organ donation, and leaving your body to science, are also noble causes. I don't think the state should force it, though.
2006-07-27 08:51:13 · answer #6 · answered by American citizen and taxpayer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't want to be cremated, I don't want my grave disturbed either and I don't want anyone whose not related to me buried above or on top of me. However, if I am dead I probably wouldn't care but as I am alive and in relatively good health the thought of being cremated, etc. gives me the heebee geebees.
2006-07-27 08:52:25 · answer #7 · answered by Peace2All 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are catacombes below the streets of Paris with bones of long dead people stacked up in patterns all intermixed. Ashes to ashes, baby! I'm all for cremation. My body is no longer of use to me after I am gone.
2006-07-27 08:51:59 · answer #8 · answered by woodwinman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cremation is cleaner and easy to maintain. Just put the ashes in an urn and place it in a cubicle for remembrance. We have multi- storey urn house. It is neat and clean.
Nowadys, some even ask their ashes to be thrown into the sea.
2006-07-27 08:51:43 · answer #9 · answered by Bright 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only the living complain about such things. We humans have a big problem letting go of our loved ones who have moved on even though the spirit(them) have moved have been long gone. I am cool with it. I am an organ donor and a science donor. In death as in life,i will help people. Peace.
2006-07-27 08:58:28 · answer #10 · answered by wildrover 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I plan on being cremated anyway. It's much cheaper and from what I've encountered there is less mourning from the family. Funerals are dreadful.
2006-07-27 08:51:24 · answer #11 · answered by reese172003 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋