What are your thoughts on cremation?

[Aupmanyav]

When i pass away i do not need the body anymore, so what happens to it does not matter to me, I am not attached to the body. it is only a vessel as long a person are in human form

In the Buddhist sense, you do not pass away (and go somewhere else), but you do not exist any more (the skandhs have disintegrated), and all the Gods, Brahma and Indra can search but will not find you. We will not be there to need the body.

 

[Spirit of Light]

In the Buddhist sense, you do not pass away (and go somewhere else), but you do not exist any more (the skandhs have disintegrted), and all the Gods, Brahma and Indra can search but will not find you. We will not be there to need the body.

Yes it is true what you say, maybe i used the worng words to explain I meant when we die from this body it is not needed more, so when we reincarnate we will have different body so if someone cremate my body when i am no longer here it is fine

 

[Vinayaka]

From a mystical Hindu perspective, the soul should be released, to move on to it's next phase, a time until the next time it finds a new physical body. The old physical body holds the soul to this physical plane. Without a body, the soul has less attachment and less confusion. During cremation, the soul exits through the crown.

 

[BSM1]

I plan on waiting until I am no longer breathing before trying it.

Perhaps I will compromise and have a Viking funeral.

This is exactly what I want but I can't talk my brother-in-law into lending me his bass boat...

 

[Spirit of Light]

I plan on waiting until I am no longer breathing before trying it.




This is exactly what I want but I can't talk my brother-in-law into lending me his bass boat...

Maybe you guys need a guide to build a ship to get buried in?
Here it is How to build a Viking ship - Basic elements of Norse wooden boat construction - homepage of Jørn Løset, Norway

 

[BSM1]

I think that cremation would interfere with my plan to be taxidermied and put in a diorama.

Before I decided on cremation, I wanted my body to be scooped out and have a large cheese ball placed inside me. I would have plates of crackers surrounding my coffin so anyone could help themselves. I planned on being useful until the final moment of my existence.

 

[BSM1]

Maybe you guys need a guide to build a ship to get buried in?
Here it is How to build a Viking ship - Basic elements of Norse wooden boat construction - homepage of Jørn Løset, Norway

If I could do that I'd have no reason to die..

 

[Spirit of Light]

If I could do that I'd have no reason to die..

Hehe

 

[ChristineM]

Burn me...

Burial space is overcrowded anyway so why contribute to that overcrowding?

Our atoms and molecules are reused (matter can neither be created or destroyed...) so rather than being buried and turning to mush to be eaten by worms etc and be crapped out under the ground, get your bits out there as quick as possible in smoke and dust to help develop the living stuff on the planets surface.

Remember, we are all made from dead people whether buried or burned.

 

[Politesse]

My archaeologist heart hates the idea of voluntarily erasing my material record. Bury me somewhere nicely anoxic and unlikely to be backhoed.

 

[Aupmanyav]

I meant when we die from this body it is not needed more, so when we reincarnate we will have different body

Ah, you don't reincarnate according to Buddhist philosophy, your karmas stay and attach to a new body. You are 'anatta' and 'anicca'. The buddhist explained it to me in this way. Karmas are like billiard balls, once in motion, they may affect many balls.

For me, cremation, the tradition, but that increases carbon imprint. So let me think about it. I don't have much time,

 

[Spirit of Light]

Ah, you don't reincarnate according to Buddhist philosophy, your karmas stay and attach to a new body. You are 'anatta' and 'anicca'. The buddhist explained it to me in this way. Karmas are like billiard balls, once in motion, they may affect many balls.

Yes according to buddhist teaching when physical body dies there will time some time and according to my karma it is decided where reincrnation will happen, in animal or human or heaven realm, if to much karma one do get reborn as animal if very little negative karma one can be reborn in heavenly realm

 

[Audie]

This is my very first thread on these forums, I have responded to many, but have never actually started one. So I hope it turns out OK.

I would like to hear how you feel about cremation, for or against and why? More importantly for me what do you feel the Bible says about it. If you do not know or care what are your feeling in general?

I just what to hear your ideas, I would prefer this not be a debate were we attack what others think, just your views; Please be nice.

Thank you in advance for your responses, in case I do not get back to you soon. I have been completely dark on RF for the last few weeks and may go dark for a while longer, but would like your views and any thoughts you have.

Cremation is stupid. What a waste of energy.
Burial at sea is the way to go.
Give the crabs and hagfish something to do.

 

[Aupmanyav]

Yes according to buddhist teaching when physical body dies there will time some time and according to my karma it is decided where reincrnation will happen, in animal or human or heaven realm, if to much karma one do get reborn as animal if very little negative karma one can be reborn in heavenly realm

That Amanaki, is Hinduism, Jainism or Sikhism; but not strictly Buddhism.

 

[Spirit of Light]

That Amanaki, is Hinduism, Jainism or Sikhism; but not strictly Buddhism.

Then you must enlighten me to what I as a Buddhist should belive?

 

[Spirit of Light]

@Aupmanyav I want to come with an a apology to you. My wording of my answer to your post where you commented on my view of Reincarnation, I should not answer in a way to you that could be taken as an offending toward your knowledge.

What i should have said was: If i am wrong in my view it would be good to be corrected. And yes i might have been wrong, In Buddhism it is talked both of rebirth and reincarnation. Honestly i might have mixed those who in my answer to you.

 

[pearl]

I really hate the funeral industry trying to sell expense caskets and urns with frills and gimmicks.

Yeas ago someone seriously suggested 'renting' a coffin to be used during the wake of funeral, and then the body placed in another plain wooden box for cremation. The reason negative reaction--it was not 'sanitary'.
I have no objection to cremation, seems better than the body slowly deteriorating.

 

[Shad]

Yeas ago someone seriously suggested 'renting' a coffin to be used during the wake of funeral, and then the body placed in another plain wooden box for cremation. The reason negative reaction--it was not 'sanitary'.
I have no objection to cremation, seems better than the body slowly deteriorating.

Deteriorating isn't a bad in my view.

 

[Aupmanyav]

My wording of my answer to your post where you commented on my view of Reincarnation, I should not answer in a way to you that could be taken as an offending toward your knowledge.

What i should have said was: If i am wrong in my view it would be good to be corrected. And yes i might have been wrong, In Buddhism it is talked both of rebirth and reincarnation. Honestly i might have mixed those who in my answer to you.

Oh Amanaki, my mind never takes it that way. You have serious interest in Buddhism in the same way as I have. Buddha is one of my two gurus. No apologies needed. I reply to only the questions raised in a post and generally forget about it. When I reply to people like you, I am not on a guard.

Buddhism's birth and reincarnation is a very interesting topic. I will not be reborn, whether I am a layman or an enlightened person. Because 'I' in Buddhism has no substance (soul in other philosophies), and the body disintegrates. Anicca and Anatta. I am ephemeral, fleeting, short-lived, transitory, brief, short, temporary, transient, episodic, evanescent, illusionary, flitting, fugacious, impermanent, unenduring. So how can I be reborn? What will survive me are my karmas or the effect of them. My bad karmas may hurt other people.

That is my view. I am not a scholar of Buddhism. There are other people in the forum who are very knowledgeable about Buddhism. If someone sees my post, he/she is welcome to comment.

 

[Spirit of Light]

Oh Amanaki, my mind never takes it that way. You have serious interest in Buddhism in the same way as I have. Buddha is one of my two gurus. No apologies needed. I reply to only the questions raised in a post and generally forget about it. When I reply to people like you, I am not on a guard.

Buddhism's birth and reincarnation is a very interesting topic. I will not be reborn, whether I am a layman or an enlightened person. Because 'I' in Buddhism has no substance (soul in other philosophies), and the body disintegrates. Anicca and Anatta. I am ephemeral, fleeting, short-lived, transitory, brief, short, temporary, transient, episodic, evanescent, illusionary, flitting, fugacious, impermanent, unenduring. So how can I be reborn? What will survive me are my karmas or the effect of them. My bad karmas may hurt other people.

That is my view. I am not a scholar of Buddhism. There are other people in the forum who are very knowledgeable about Buddhism. If someone sees my post, he/she is welcome to comment.

Thank you for your reply Just after i left my first reply to you i felt the need to correct my self Glad you did not felt offended