[CynicalBear]

>>Too bad they didn’t spend all that headstone money, embalmment money, funeral service money, and flower money on “the living to demonstrate the love of Christ to a lost and dying world.”<<

I agree.

Luke 9:60 Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.

How do you do it in your church?

[xzins]

There is no required funeral rite in Methodism, so each family participates in the design of any funeral service, and there is no denominational involvement at all in the burial arrangements. Some do go very simple and leave quite a bit for the church. Others go elaborate, but most are a middle ground. We still use headstones in this area. I’d have thought the cemetery would have insisted on ground level plaques by now to cut grounds-keeping costs.

I tend to be skeptical toward anything elaborate and almost everything opulent.