Posted on 03/18/2015 7:30:19 AM PDT by Salvation
I'm not usually a sensitive guy, but that brings a tear to my eye.
So that is why there was such large containers at a friends home I was staying at! They were in the dining room floor on the floor in these cardboard containers.
Ashes to ashes...dust to dust, just a quicker way to get there. If done in a respectable manner and setting...no big deal.
that would be both illegal and UNWELCOME!!
That's an interesting question that you've raised.
No thanks I’m going in the ground. :-)
I hope to die a criminal in my shallow grave in the woods.
I always wanted to be stuffed. Then I could be wheeled out for family gatherings.
Or, if I had enough money for a mausoleum, I could be propped into a frightening pose to scare people when they looked in.
When my Mother died, she had asked to be cremated, because she wanted to be buried next to my stepfather, and the small cemetery only had room for cremated remains. In fact they had closed it to any new burials, and she was only buried there because she had signed up years before. I had no problems with the cremation, since the Catholic Church now allows it. We had a funeral Mass said for her, with the urn before the altar, and another priest said prayers at the burial of her urn.
God wants us to bury our dead with respect. But if someone has lost an arm or a leg, or has been burned in a fire, God will have no trouble putting them back together at the Resurrection. The same with cremated remains. But they should properly be buried, not scattered.
Donate your body for plastination. They have traveling museum displays. You could scare yourself and lots of little kids at the same time.
I plan to have the same thing, held on the veranda of my horse barn. My ashes will be mixed with those of a few special creatures I’ve shared my life with. The ashes will be scattered over the graves of my horses. Hubby will do the same. I don’t feel that it really matters what happens to remains. The soul is already with the Lord (or elsewhere).
Good point.
I wonder why Saints are exempt from the rules of the Church.
If the person is alive at the time, I agree with you.
If the person is dead, then the body is an empty vessel. All the REALLY important parts have moved out of it.
Wow! Fifty posts and no Bible quotes - new record.
Shades of “The Big Lebowski”
What do bishops have to do with the setting of prices of funerals?
The bones go through a chopper somewhat like a food processer, that chops them up.
You are highlighting the original concerns and prohibition of cremation. Many pagans and non-Christians burn the deceased, as well use other practices, “sky burial,” for example.
We know that we will be raised on the last day. If we think carefully, how will the bodies of organ donors, those who died in fires or horrific accidents, be risen?
The process of embalming involves the piercing and destruction of internal organs, as well as the introduction of fluids to slow decomposition.
Eventually, the body will decompose. However, as God is all powerful, and promised to raise us, I feel confident our bodies will not only be restored, but restored in glory.
In my case, I will have a full head of hair and excellent skin!
Not going to teach new drs. Most anatomical donations get chopped up into donor parts. skin, eyes, etc. Then they are placed for sale.
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