How do you feel about cremation?

Question

do u want to be creamated if you die? Or any member of the family?

Answer 1

I think cremation is the most thoughtful of all disposal methods... its more affordable, doesn't take up real estate, and someone might keep you on the mantle as a conversational piece.

Myself, I am going to be donated to science. Yay for me if I can help cure something, or help doctors learn humans to help the living. That, and it's only a $200 fee to the morgue for disposing of me at the university hospital.

Answer 2

I oppose cremation, but not because I'm in any way concerned about my uninhabited body being burnt. I'm not really worried about what happens to it when I've finished with it.

No, cremation seems like a bad idea because of the environmental impact: it requires a massive amount of gas to burn a body, and a great deal of carbon dioxide is produced, not to mention all the toxic stuff that the deceased has spent a lifetime collecting, and which is suddenly released into the atmosphere.

I'm not a fussy man, but my prefered interment would be humanist, unenbalmed cardboard coffin burial, upright (to reduce the footprint), away from consecrated ground, and with an oak sapling on top. However, I've no problems with family members prefering cremation if they so wish.

Answer 3

Cremation is good because here in Singapore land is scarce so it helps to save space. If the bodies are cremated we don't have to worry about it if the government decides to reclaim the land for other purposes. However cremation may cause some air pollution.

Personally I would like to be cremated so that my family can place my ashes at home so that I can "be with them". I'm afraid that if I'm buried my family members will forget about me after a while or get too busy to visit my grave, haha.

My father wants to be cremated because his parents were cremated too. He wants his ashes to put scattered into the sea like his parents.

Answer 4

From a planetary ecology point of view, burial is the proper way to go. However, most government and churches will only permit burial in specified places and these are getting very full. This makes cremation the way to go since it uses less space and sometimes none. But it robs the earth of needed nutrients and impacts the future of other life forms and in the long run quite possibly humans. I had to cremate my wife because of the space concerns and the same will happen to me. I would rather that I could have been buried in some farmers field to fertilize his crops but it 'ain't goin' to happen'.

Answer 5

I had two dogs. The first one is buried in a box that my husband made. The second was cremated, her ashes put it a cedar box then she was buried where my first dog is. I call it my pet cemetery and keep the flowers, trees, and boulders kept nicely. I myself will be cremated. At least that is what I told my husband that I wanted. I just want something private as it is so hard for the people left behind. This has nothing to do with money. When you die your spirit goes to heaven and I know when I reach there my animals will cross the Rainbow Bridge to meet me and we will be together again.

Answer 6

Yes I do want to be cremated, my reason is quite simple I cannot imagine being buried in the ground and having bugs eat away at me until there is nothing left. Also I think space is an issue.

Answer 7

If it's cheaper than the whole cemetary burial thing, then I would tell my family to go for it! Why spend thousansds on a chunk of dirt for a dead body? I know I'll see them again someday in the resurrection, so what difference does it make what they do with my remains in the meantime? I say light the fire and then scatter my ashes over the Pacific Ocean, preferably at Cannon Beach, Oregon, one of the most beautuful pieces of coastline on earth.

Answer 8

This is the best way to dispose a body. Already there is shortage of space for the living; where to find one for the dead. I'll choose cremation no doubt.

Answer 9

I am going to be cremated, my wife is going to be cremated and our youngest daughter is going to be cremated when we die. I don't know about the other 4 kids we have. I call it: Die and fry.

Answer 10

I have always been afraid of hot things, especially the oven. I don't think I could contemplate being cremated. I know I would be dead then, but I still don't want it.