what is the point of being cremated?

Question

i have always wounder y some one would do this

Answer 1

to be put back to the earth as you came then to be put in the ground and have the bugs eat you then if your ever pulled up u are bones or if they did a good job look like you do with bunch of holes in you with bugs living there. I am going to be cremated or lefted to research then cremated

Answer 2

People choose cremation for a variety of reasons, including religious reasons, environmental reasons, and cost. Cremation is not an expensive process. Some people find they prefer cremation for personal reasons. For some people it is because they are not attracted to traditional burial. The thought of a long, slow decomposition process is unappealing to some. Some people find that they prefer cremation because it disposes of the body immediately.
Other people view cremation as a way of simplifying their funeral process. These people view a traditional burial as an unneeded complication of their funeral process, and thus choose cremation to make their services as simple as possible.
I have a personal concern about grave invasions and body snatching in cemeteries that have been found to be a part of
satanic cults. Where I live, there have been 2 occasions in the last few years where this has happened.
I have found nothing in the Bible that would contraindicate cremation as a means of body disposal. The Catholic Church has now accepted it as long as a funeral mass has been held first.

Answer 3

1. It saves space.
2. It is less expensive than a cemetery plot.
3. Ashes can be placed where you would like them to be.

What really is the difference. When the body is dead, it is dead. You won't use it again; it is simply a bunch of dead cells that will never work again. It is a husk, an envelope. It isn't "you".

What disturbs me more is the effort going into preserving the body, sticking it in a hermetically sealed tomb, where it will never rejoin the earth. This may make sense from a Christian viewpoint, where they believe that they will somehow use that body once again, but this doesn't really make sense to me. Let the body rejoin the earth and become once again part of the cycle of life.

Answer 4

could it be the fact that cremation only costs something like $350 bucks as to where a funeral and burial and all that happy crap runs around $15,000 ? hmmmm. Or, the fact that after your loved ones pass on and there is nobody to tend to your grave anymore, who is to stop some jackass from making it a parking lot? I've seen that done in michigan !! If I died, it would probably be cremation as the thought of worms crawling in and out of my eye sockets is most unpleasant. Not that anyone would want the ashes anyway, just my outlook on things.

Answer 5

My fiance is Danish, and they all get cremated. He says that it's a tradition so your soul and your body is not raped in the afterlife by both demons and people (necrophilia). It's also a much cheaper and easier way of having a funeral and saves room in graveyards for places that have very little space.

Answer 6

Because some people dont like the idea of being decompossing slowly and leaving bones in a box. Also you could keep some of the memories and a part of that person arround. Just comes down to preference.

Answer 7

Your remains occupy less space, and can thus be stored at less cost. Additionally, the remains can even be discarded.

My first choice would be to be composted, but that's totally illegal. Instead, cremate me, and dump my ashes into the Arroyo Seco River (which runs down past the Rose Bowl in Pasadena).

Answer 8

I'm getting cremated when I die so my family can have me there with them always on the shelve next to my dead mutts who were also cremated is where I want to be and it's cheaper for my family they don't have to worry about any expenses .

Answer 9

Because my body will not be left to pollute the earth. The chemicals they use for embalming are very destructive - formaldehyde is a very very nasty chemical.

You put a body in the earth, pumped full of chemicals, in a vault that is supposed to withstand 500-1000 years before it degrades (depending on state regs) and the land is useless. It is much better used for farming and helping the continuation of the human race rather than taking away from it.

Answer 10

1. So there's not a lot of dead bodies lying around.
2. Recycling.
3. Cheaper.
4. The body is just a shell once your spirit is gone it needs to be gotten rid of.
5. Burning your body releases your spirit and allows it, like the smoke, to return to heaven.