2007-10-31 00:55:35 · 22 answers · asked by G 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No, you can't use it. Give it to someone who can.
Unless it's something with purely sentimental value.
2007-10-31 00:59:44 · answer #1 · answered by Eleventy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If the "thing" could do harm to others, then yes you should take it to your grave. But if it could help others then it should be revealed.
I remember watching an episode of 20/20 (or something similar) where a lawyer had information that could potentially free an innocent man, but she refused to reveal the information out of respect for attorney/client privilege - even though the client was dead. I don't remember the details, but it may have had to do with a civil rights case or a murder case.
EDIT - now that I think about it, the case may have been an unsolved kidnapping.
2007-10-31 08:01:40 · answer #2 · answered by Justin H 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is actually good for those who are left behind. The soul, especially when it is not yet used to its new state continues to function in the environment when it was still one with its body. Such attachment is the more reinforced when it could still see the things once used in their usual place. So that, its presence is often felt by the living, where his things are.
So, there is this practice of burying with the dead its personal things. Another practice would be to burn them at the yard.
2007-10-31 08:07:02 · answer #3 · answered by Gentle Breeze 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
take what you wish but it's the spirit that has to deal with
earthly garbage. the grave is for the physical body and
has nothing to do with eternity. morally fair to take what?
useless trinkets of a dead life?
2007-10-31 08:02:46 · answer #4 · answered by Judy E. T 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"How long is a peace of string?"
It ultimatly depends on what it is one is taking the grave? Is it information that could save someone? Is it information that belongs to no one but themselves? Is it information that is critical to the development or help of someone else??
2007-10-31 08:00:12 · answer #5 · answered by copticphoenix 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In the old days you were interred with most of your meagre possessions, weapons, cooking pots etc, so you could have them in the next life. Why shouldn't you be buried with certain things that belong to you, we aren't all that stupid that we believe in what the Christians try to endlessly shove down our throats.
~Kluto~
2007-10-31 08:11:59 · answer #6 · answered by El Luto Von Kluto 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your family have no moral right to things they didn't work for.
2007-10-31 08:04:09 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely. It is also entirely ethical. When I person makes a vow of slience so as not to betray his friends or loved ones, it is forever.
2007-10-31 08:12:33 · answer #8 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you mean not to disclose secrets, then that depends on your interpretation of morality. If you mean to be buried with material possessions, then I'm not sure it matters to you as you will be dead! (or at least, I hope you will be dead!)
2007-10-31 09:57:18 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
For what purpose? Personally I'd like to be buried with my MP3 player so I can listen to opera while I rot.
2007-10-31 08:02:06 · answer #10 · answered by Starjumper the R&S Cow 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends what kind of things I guess, lies? Secrets? I definately wouldnt want take your family or others with you!
2007-10-31 08:04:42 · answer #11 · answered by james h 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋