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Cremation vs. Burial vs. ___________ ?

Dragonfly

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So where do you stand on what to do with your body after you die?

Cremation is replacing traditional burials, but why? - CNN

The days of most Americans choosing a casket and traditional graveside burial for their funerals are over.Cremation became the top choice in 2015 and has been climbing in popularity ever since.
According to statistics from the National Funeral Directors Association, or NFDA, more than half of all Americans who die this year will be cremated. In 20 years, the association predicts, nearly 80% of us will opt to have our bodies turned into ash.
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However, not all religions are hunky-dory with that.

Religion and Cremation - Cremation.com

For many Christians, the question is then, “How can God raise up a body if the body doesn’t exist due to cremation?”
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So, seems like a potential for lively (pun intended) discussion.

Thoughts?
 
When I die, I'd like to be cremated. It's just always been my preference, as it's less of a hassle then a casket. Plus, my body's gonna be decomposing anyway, right? I ain't gonna look pretty for very long. So, might as well get it outta the way and burn me to cinders. Ash doesn't decompose! :lol:

I'd like to have a funny cremation box, too, like that "Oh, it's awfully dark in here" one. I'm all about funerals/remembrance being full of laughter and celebration for the person's life, so I'd like that to be the case with me, whenever I do go.
 
Creamation makes more sense since it requires no real estate (an added expense). If destruction of the body (upon or after death) prevented one's "soul" from enjoying the perks of an afterlife then more than cremation is under discussion.
 
Cremation for me, I do not want my kids or grand kids worrying about a grave site.
I hope they are able to limit regulations like requiring people who want to be cremated to be embalmed.
 
Cremation is a LOT cheaper. A no frills standard funeral with tombstone are running between $15K and $20K in our area. Cremation starts at $1K if you do no embalming, etc and go straight to the furnace. If you want viewing/service it runs in the $3500-$5K range.
 
Drawdown said:
Cremation is a LOT cheaper. A no frills standard funeral with tombstone are running between $15K and $20K in our area. Cremation starts at $1K if you do no embalming, etc and go straight to the furnace. If you want viewing/service it runs in the $3500-$5K range.
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Donating your body to science is even cheaper isn't it?

Body farms?
 
Dragonfly said:
So where do you stand on what to do with your body after you die?

Cremation is replacing traditional burials, but why? - CNN



However, not all religions are hunky-dory with that.

Religion and Cremation - Cremation.com




So, seems like a potential for lively (pun intended) discussion.

Thoughts?
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It doesn't matter to me, personally. I would rather have a 'green' burial, (i.e. no embalming), so that there is less impact to the environment. Other than that,surprise me.
 
TheGoverness said:
When I die, I'd like to be cremated. It's just always been my preference, as it's less of a hassle then a casket. Plus, my body's gonna be decomposing anyway, right? I ain't gonna look pretty for very long. So, might as well get it outta the way and burn me to cinders. Ash doesn't decompose! :lol:

I'd like to have a funny cremation box, too, like that "Oh, it's awfully dark in here" one. I'm all about funerals/remembrance being full of laughter and celebration for the person's life, so I'd like that to be the case with me, whenever I do go.
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"I am finally going to get a tan"
 
Drawdown said:
Cremation is a LOT cheaper. A no frills standard funeral with tombstone are running between $15K and $20K in our area. Cremation starts at $1K if you do no embalming, etc and go straight to the furnace. If you want viewing/service it runs in the $3500-$5K range.
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Funeral services, in general, are a predatory business. The fact that it costs so much to bury someone is rather ridiculous. That being said, I think that the idea of physical burials these days is becoming a bit less desirable. I think a lot of it does fall around the funeral predation effects. Who wants to really spend all that money on that? It seems a bit ridiculous. I certainly wouldn't want my family to have to worry about those bills.

Cremation I think is becoming popular because it is so much cheaper but also I think the idea has become far more palatable and people think of how much more sense it makes in the long run.

I think I may end up opting for some form of recycling, quite honestly. Harvest anything that can be reused, donate the rest to something else.
 
Cremation for both of us
Donated specific organs, rest burn it
Ashes to be spread off the coast of NS
 
Dragonfly said:
So where do you stand on what to do with your body after you die?
Cremation is replacing traditional burials, but why? - CNN
However, not all religions are hunky-dory with that.
Religion and Cremation - Cremation.com
So, seems like a potential for lively (pun intended) discussion.
Thoughts?
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When I die, I'll be cremated ... I hope.

"raise up the body" shouldn't be taken literally as meaning the body has to be intact. See also the following phrases in the Catholic church, for example:

Funeral: Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.

Ash Wednesday: Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.
 
I haven't decided. Maybe toss me in the ground unembalmed and plant a tree. I also like the glass coffin and mausoleum idea so that the kiddies can bring flashlights and spook themselves on Halloween. Probably can't afford that one, though.
 
Cremation is cheaper and causes less problems for the people ultimately responsible for the 'funeral'. In addition, people are ditching funerals in favor of 'Celebrations of Life'. I lost four people last year. I have considerable experience.
 
I want Keith Richards to snort the ashes.
 
Dragonfly said:
So where do you stand on what to do with your body after you die?

Cremation is replacing traditional burials, but why? - CNN



However, not all religions are hunky-dory with that.

Religion and Cremation - Cremation.com




So, seems like a potential for lively (pun intended) discussion.

Thoughts?
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This is a fascinating topic and I recommend two books by Caitlin Doughty for those interested:

Smoke Gets In Your Eyes & Other Lessons From The Crematory

From Here to Eternity: Traveling The World To Find The Good Death

I want my elements to return to the Earth. One might imagine that cremation is the way to go, but that turns out not to be the case. The only legal form of cremation in the United States is industrial and all of your organic elements are destroyed in this process. The only thing left of you is a worthless inorganic pile of ash and ground up bone. So I suppose the only way to get what I want in this country is to donate my husk to a body farm.
 
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The Fore peoples of Papua New Guinea had a strongly codified type of endocannibalism as part of funerary rites. In this tribe, women and children played the largest role in cannibalism among deceased Fore males. The society allowed certain relations to eat certain parts of the deceased. A woman, for example, ate the brain of her dead brother. A sister-in-law ate the hands of her husband's dead brother or the buttocks, vulva and intestines of her dead sister-in-law [source: Lukaschek].



Wonder if they use hot sauce???
 
No embalming if possible, biodegradable casket, in the ground within 24 hours. Smallest marker possible. No obit.
 
My wife is very averse to cremation. I'm of the opinion that a body is just meat--cook it or cure it according to you preference. Both my parents were cremated.

What both my wife and I favor is closed casket. A good picture from life is much better than a spray painted corpse.

J
 
Cremation.

Scattering of ashes in various specified locations. Celebration of Life at a good restaurant, BYOB.
 
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