2006-07-27 08:55:39 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Laws reqire embalming if the body is kept for more than a day or so.... so that people are not contaminated who would come to the funeral.... Funeral rituals are distinctively different for each denomination and area of the country... They are usually just traditions that each group has developed over years.... Grandma did it this way.... Grandpa would have like it that way..... Embalming goes back to the days of Egyptians...who perfected it.... We practice is fore health reasons more than anything.
2006-07-27 09:00:55 · answer #1 · answered by rejoiceinthelord 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I think the embalming is to keep the stench down for the 'viewing of the body' ewww! That is a good question though. Also why do they put them in caskets that don't deteriorate (or very slowly) just to clutter up the earth? I want to be creamated. I feel bad enough for 'cluttering' up the earth with my living body! lol
2006-07-27 09:01:51 · answer #2 · answered by Tori 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For closure and to pay respect to the person who died. They embalm them to preserve their bodies, even though they become corrupted (decayed), it is a service that is provided to respect the creations of God. It is also believed that the body will one day be resurrected with the spirit, during the second coming. So we prepare the body as if it were to happen.
2006-07-27 08:59:07 · answer #3 · answered by Angel 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mainly to prevent disease. For the survivors to get together and deal with their loss. Also, so their loved ones are not dug up and eaten by dogs. And finally, so the funeral home owners can make the big bucks.
2006-07-27 09:00:08 · answer #4 · answered by Big Momma Carnivore 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So the rotting body doesn't smell up the funeral home. Plus puke is hard to get out of expensive furniture.
2006-07-27 08:57:54 · answer #5 · answered by gg 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its better than cremation i mean why live your life as a follower of the lord if in the end you are going to burn by choice well i guess if your dead its not your choice lol but your still burning i know i would rather be buried than caught on fire even after death
2006-07-27 08:59:39 · answer #6 · answered by anne 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hahahahahahhahaha. wooooooo hooooooo
Christians do this eh?
hmmmmmmmmm. snickerrrrrrrrrrr
Hey dude. If you care to check it out, many atheists have been.
It is Federal Law, you have to be to cross State Lines.
By every State Law, any body that has been autopsied has to be. :)
Now, am I a hero...or what?
wooooo hooooooooooooo
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2006-07-27 09:05:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Embalming has NOTHING to do with whether or not you are a Christian.
2006-07-27 09:06:50 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christians do not do rituals
2006-07-27 09:25:28 · answer #9 · answered by marina 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The fermaldihyde feels better than old blood.
2006-07-27 08:59:07 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋