burial?.it is cheeper and the land is wasted with all those big plots.you are dead and gone after all
2007-03-02 00:43:02 · 19 answers · asked by woodsonhannon53 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yeah , i wanna be cremated .
2007-03-02 00:46:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I never would have thought I would agree with you but my brother passed away in Dec. and was cremated,now I believe you are right.Although if you aren't used to cremations it is a lot different of course because the body isn't laid out for viewing and it takes a while to get used to. It seems like I have had a harder time adjusting to him really being gone.
2007-03-02 08:49:33 · answer #2 · answered by jackiedj8952 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely. For the life of me, I don't get why people will pay ungodly amounts of money, buying lavish caskets, to put an embalmed carcass in the ground, and do everything possible to prevent it from breaking down and disintegrating back into the soil. If you happen to believe that the body is merely a shell that has worn out, or no longer needed, and that the "soul" has moved on to another plane of being, then what the heck do you want to pamper those worthless remains for? And if you are one of those people who believe that when you're dead you're dead and that's it, well, nuff said. That person, however much you loved him or her, is gone forever. The dead don't need five thousand dollar caskets with pretty liners, and 24 karat gold plated knobs on.
Cremation is cheap (well, a lot cheaper anyway), and it's the living who need the land, not the dead. If you want to keep your loved one's ashes in a little pot, it's not going to be hogging much space, and if you choose to scatter them in your loved one's favorite spot in life, that body has truly gone back to the basic matter of which it was made in the first place.
Never forgetting, too, that unless we humans start doing something about our out of control over-breeding, in another hundred years or so, we're going to need every square foot of land we can find to set our feet on.
2007-03-02 09:02:26 · answer #3 · answered by sharmel 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Yes, I agree, although as a child I had a terrifying fear of being burned. I dreamed I was feeling it all. Silly, really. They could bury the ashes in a tiny plot. In my home town, the graves are being recycled, sort of speak, every 25 years. The former inhabitant is removed from his/her resting spot and a new guest is welcomed. The graveyard hasn't had the need for expansion for that reason. I agree and disagree. My brother will be dead 25 years next year and they'll remove his grave. I'm still young and would have liked to visit the site more in the future.
2007-03-02 08:49:33 · answer #4 · answered by VW 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I fully agree I think its alot better to be cremated! My grandfather just died and the burial was very exspensive.. I love him but honestly I believe when you are gone your spirit leaves your body.. so its just flesh remaining. I told my mom I want to be cremated and my ashes spread over the ocean in california where i was born :)
2007-03-02 08:48:21 · answer #5 · answered by mizzmaya79 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
My mom was cremated and she has a plot anway, although it's probably a lot smaller than most grave sites. It was pretty expensive; it was my dad's decision but it was based on what my mother said she wanted. I have heard that a lot of folks spend more than they can realistically afford on funeral expenses, and that can be a very sad thing. I guess the choice is based on religion, culture, family, personal preference and how much.money is available. I don't think people should have to feel obligated to spend huge amounts of money on this if they can't afford it. Sometimes simple is nice.
2007-03-02 09:03:12 · answer #6 · answered by majnun99 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
When a soul leaves the body especially after a violent death, it takes him long time to realize that he is dead. He will hoover around his body for a long time trying to get back into it, however if the body is destroyed in the form of cremation he will realize sooner of his ghostly state and will continue his journey to acquire a new body in the process of reincarnation.
2007-03-02 09:12:21 · answer #7 · answered by edcaimo 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I think you are so right. Burial is a waste of money and space.
Also cremation, if your ashes are scattered, returns nutrients to the earth. It is the logical, ecologically responsible choice.
2007-03-02 09:39:41 · answer #8 · answered by Dawn G 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
The families of a lot of people that are cremated get the urn buried in a lair with a gravestone anyway so what difference would it make?
2007-03-02 08:48:09 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Exactly the reasons I want to be cremated. Cheaper and no plot. I don't care what they do with my ashes.
2007-03-02 08:47:36 · answer #10 · answered by glitterkittyy 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋