Who thought of cremation...?

Question

Who thought of cremation and y do ppl do it?

Answer 1

The Indians always burned the bodies of their loved ones. The believed it would send them on their journey. Personally, I prefer it to rotting in the ground and becoming food for all types of insects.

Answer 2

"Cremation first appears in the Levant in the Neolithic, but declines with Semitic settlement of the area in the 3rd millennium. Cremation was widely regarded as barbarian in the Ancient Near East, to be used only by necessity in times of plague. The Babylonians, according to Herodotus, embalmed their dead, and the Zoroastrian Persians punished capitally even attempted cremation, with special regulations for the purification of fire so desecrated.

In Europe, there are traces of cremation dating to the Early Bronze Age (ca. 2000 BC) in the Pannonian Plain and along the middle Danube." There is more on this site:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cremation

I have lost my husband,parents and brother. My parents and brother all wanted to be cremated. It is less of a burden on those left behind. It is FAR less expensive and a way of of creating less of an ordeal for your loved ones. It is not NEARLY as upsetting as what I needed to do for my husband...pick out the casket,get his clothes,view him for a great lenght of time. It is still necessary to view the body before cremation,it is the law. It's just that all during my husbands service it was rather sad. For my parents and brother,it was a true celebration.Their souls AND bodies had already "moved on." I have all the urns. Soon I will have my brother intered at Quantico,with his fellow Marines. I also wish to be cremated.

Answer 3

Cremation first appears in the Levant in the Neolithic, but declines with Semitic settlement of the area in the 3rd millennium. Cremation was widely regarded as barbarian in the Ancient Near East, to be used only by necessity in times of plague. The Babylonians, according to Herodotus, embalmed their dead, and the Zoroastrian Persians punished capitally even attempted cremation, with special regulations for the purification of fire so desecrated.

In Europe, there are traces of cremation dating to the Early Bronze Age (ca. 2000 BC) in the Pannonian Plain and along the middle Danube. The custom becomes dominant throughout Bronze Age Europe with the Urnfield culture (from ca. 1300 BC). In the Iron Age, inhumation becomes again more common, but cremation persisted in the Villanovan culture and elsewhere. Homer's account of Patroclus' burial describes cremation with subsequent burial in a tumulus similar to Urnfield burials, qualifying as the earliest description of cremation rites. Early cremation may have been connected to ideas of fire sacrifice, such as those to Taranis in Celtic paganism (see human sacrifice).

Hinduism is notable for not only allowing but prescribing cremation. Cremation in India is first attested in the Cemetery H culture (from ca. 1900 BC), considered the formative stage of Vedic civilization. The Rigveda contains a reference to the emerging practice, in RV 10.15.14, where the forefathers "both cremated (agnidagdhá-) and uncremated (ánagnidagdha-)" are invoked.

Answer 4

some guy with a lot of wood to sell. People get cremated because they can't stand the idea of having worms screwing in their innards.

Answer 5

any early native Americans that used the funeral pyre and overseas probably sanitation these days is the primary reason

Answer 6

The person who understood the meaning of "ashes to ashes, dust to dust". :)

Why? Quick, clean, no morbid stuff.........have you ever thought why anyone would want to be embalmed? Yuck!

Answer 7

I think that it goes WAY back.In American history native Indians would burn their dead on makeshift scaffolds.