how would you as a atheist want to be buried
2006-08-15 04:52:44 · 21 answers · asked by trina 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Well Trina there are several things possible:
1. If the person has made a will about how he should be buried or burned or drowned or his body given to medical students etc. , the body would be disposed accordingly.
2. If the person didnt make a will, then I guess his family members decide on how the body should be disposed
3. If the person died in a natural or man made calamity and the body was not claimed the government might decide as per the rules of the country.
2006-08-15 05:02:55 · answer #1 · answered by rickashe 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How and where you're buried depends on what church you belong to, so obviously an Atheist wouldn't be buried in a Jewish cemetary or something like that. However, there are public cemetaries in many cities, and others may wish to have their ashes spread in the ocean. Personally, I kind of like the idea of my loved ones having a place to go to where they can visit me. But perhaps it doesn't have to be a grave. I'm not sure, but that's an excellent question.
2006-08-15 05:02:11 · answer #2 · answered by ThePeter 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A friend of my husbands, who was an atheist, was taken directly to the grave, buried... and a huge party followed in rememberance of him. Personally, I thought that was a better way to hold a funeral than all the sobbing for hours at the funeral home, then again at the gravesite and then again at the relatives/friends house. I would much rather be remembered as I was when I was alive, not laying in a box.
2006-08-15 05:09:30 · answer #3 · answered by Kithy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Same way just no religious service. In the US the way we bury people is dictated by law and city codes more than religion.
2006-08-15 05:00:24 · answer #4 · answered by Robsthings 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ask Madalyn Murray O'hair, one time chief atheist in the United States.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madalyn_Murray_O'Hair
The was buried in the way a godless society would honor the dead.
2006-08-15 05:00:45 · answer #5 · answered by Just David 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
However they like. I would like to be burnt to smoldering ash and returned to the earth. And a huge party for a visitation first.
Oh, I agree with the guy below me in that I would really like to be left in the woods for the animals to eat me, but I'm pretty sure that's illegal. Guess I could volunteer for one of those forensics studies on decay...
2006-08-15 04:59:55 · answer #6 · answered by Phoenix, Wise Guru 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not atheist, but unbelievers are buried like believers, in a box. (there wouldn't be a church service).
2006-08-15 04:57:59 · answer #7 · answered by RB 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it is a know fact that someone is an atheist, then the body is given to medical students to practice on.
2006-08-15 04:58:36 · answer #8 · answered by Burly Mann 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Same as everybody else.
No religious ceremony.
Someone says something nice about them and away to the grave yard.
2006-08-15 04:58:30 · answer #9 · answered by chris p 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you don't believe in God (as I do), you just don't care how you get buried because you don't believe in heaven. You believe that you just stop to exist, period.
2006-08-15 04:58:23 · answer #10 · answered by Lyvy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋