I'm Catholic but wish to be cremated.
2007-05-08 03:54:07 · 24 answers · asked by mrs O 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Pete W, I didn't know that, thank you.
2007-05-08 03:59:43 · update #1
Wow, Penguin...and to think I liked you...till now.
2007-05-08 04:12:56 · update #2
As a Humanist, my concern is not for my spirit but for my family and the environment. If I had my druthers, I'd be buried in a light cloth sack without embalming or casket in my garden, where my body would nurture my plants. But since the law does not allow this, because I think burial plots are a waste of precious space, and because funerals with all the trimmings are outrageously expensive, I have chosen to be cremated and my ashes spread throughout my garden.
Recently, I read a report by an Australian professor who has called for an end to cremation, saying that the practice contributes to global warming. If I could follow his environmentally friendly recommendation of being "buried in a cardboard box under a tree," I would. But since it's still against the law in most cases, cremation remains my choice.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070418/sc_afp/lifestylewarmingdeath_070418143046
2007-05-08 04:34:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Cremation is burning dead meat.
If you believe in a soul or spirit then it's already left your body by the time you're cremated.
If you don't believe in a soul or spirit then again there's no problem.
Who wants their body to rot while taking up valuable real estate while it does?
I've left instructions that after I'm cremated my ashes will be scattered on the shores of England's deepest lake which is at the base of England's highest mountain.
2007-05-08 10:57:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Personally, I'd rather not die. But that's because I have Panic Disorder and am thanatophobic.
I'll put it off as long as possible, even if it means medical science has my living, thinking disembodied brain in a box on wheels 300 years from now.
I believe in God but am in no rush to meet him.
HOWEVER, assuming I don't get to live to the second coming, I'd prefer to be buried WITHOUT being embalmed (if only that were legal). Cremation would be my second preference.
2007-05-08 11:05:18 · answer #3 · answered by Skepticat 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm a Christian as well but whenever I watch horror films and see the rotten corpses with maggots crawling all over them; I'd think ok... I'd rather turn into ashes; it's not like anyone is going to dig up my dead body but, I don't know... I don't want maggots and hundreds of insects crawling out of my corpse...
Ok, if my soul is going to heaven, (or hell for being a "webdemon") why does the Church care how my soul-less body is disposed?
I think I will get cremated...
2007-05-08 11:05:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Recently having to make a choice for my husband, He was cremated. He used to say we die and become "plant food", I'd tell him our earthly body dies, but pray God, our soul will go to heaven.
We used a lovely "urn", made of biodegradable tree bark, with flowers and leaves embedded in it.When I am dead, I wish to be cremated as well and the remains mixed with my husbands and then the "urn" to be buried on family land where something will be planted above.
2007-05-08 11:06:16 · answer #5 · answered by June smiles 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am going to be cremated. If I am around to care what ppl do with my body we have a bigger problem then I thought. Why take up space on earth? Like we don't allready have a problem with not enough land.
2007-05-08 11:01:59 · answer #6 · answered by ~Heathen Princess~ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When our bodies are taken up in the Rapture, we are told that Death and Hades give up the bodies. We are also told that the sea gives up the bodies. So it really doesn't make any difference what shape our bodies are in, burnt up, rotted, in the sea or blown apart, God will raise us up. So cremation means nothing to me. I plan on being cremated.
2007-05-08 10:59:59 · answer #7 · answered by Fish <>< 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I want to be cremated too. I realize that christian tradition is to bury the dead, so that we can use them after we rise again. But, i don't think GOD is going to want me to use the flimsy body I have now for eternity. So, just cremate me and don't leave my body to rot and decay in the ground
2007-05-08 11:01:21 · answer #8 · answered by Rob 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Body consist of "Punch Bhhota" (Five Elements) should be eleminated in them i.e
1. Earth
2. Sky
3. Air
4. Fire
5. Water
In cremation the Human bodt consist of above five elements emerged back in above same five elements.
2007-05-08 11:02:52 · answer #9 · answered by P S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Someone mentioned that burial is a Christian tradition. Actually, it's Jewish. Jews, at least observant Jews, don't cremate.
2007-05-08 11:07:43 · answer #10 · answered by imluke54 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋