What are your thoughts on cremation?

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.

With an ever more crowded world it is the moral way to take care of our dead. Roast me and toast me. Just make sure that I am dead first.

Thank you Subduction Zone, very logical and to the point. I felt the same way, but am starting to have second thoughts. Not that I feel differently for myself, but sometimes you need to take others feelings into consideration when they have strong feeling about it.

Misunderstood said:

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.

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Cremation is very efficient. A lot better than filling up a cemetery with bodies.

Personally to me it's up to the person and the family to decide.

Misunderstood said:

I would like to hear how you feel about cremation, for or against and why?

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For. I think it is perfectly fine way to dispose of a body provided the methods are more natural based than chemical and mechanical machines. A prye for example.

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?

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I do not hold to Biblical views so my answer would be missing the point of the question beyond what I have posted above

Shad said:

I do not hold to Biblical views so my answer would be missing the point of the question beyond what I have posted above

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Thanks for posting, I just wanted your views even if you do not have any religious content to add. Thank you for taking the time to respond.

Misunderstood said:

Thanks for posting, I just wanted your views even if you do not have any religious content to add. Thank you for taking the time to respond.

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You're welcome.

Just to expand I support cremation and low-grade burial as it is part of the natural cycle. I am not an fan of any sort of "entombing" (mausoleum, tombs, etc) nor preservation (chemicals, sealed containers, etc). I really hate the funeral industry trying to sell expense caskets and urns with frills and gimmicks. To me it is preying upon the loss of others. Although I do admit part of my reason is the "creepy" factor I feel in places related to death. Not death itself but the industries around it.

Well, first of all the Bible doesn't say anything for or against so whatever you decide is in line with that. The Bible says from dust we came and to dust we return. Cremation is just the quickest way to do that.

In the past Jews and Catholics have taken a negative view on the burning of the dead but that doesn't mean there is actually a scriptural basis for doing so. It was just the custom with the Jews of that time. The Encyclopædia Judaica: “Disposal of the dead body by burning is not a Jewish custom and inhumation [burial] is considered by traditional Jews to be obligatory.”

To the Jews in the Bible times burial was the preferred method, but there was no scriptural reason for this. The modern day Jew may cite Deuteronomy 21:23 for reasoning this way, but all it really says is not to leave a convicted criminal on the torture stake over night. The corpses of criminals and animals, who were not thought to be candidates for resurrection were thrown into a burning refuse heap like Gehenna (Hebrew Geh-Hinnom), but that was more of a reflection on respect and an aversion of pagan means of disposal of the dead or sacrificing living people, usually children, to fire in reverence to pagan gods such as Molech. But that isn't the case with cremation. It wouldn't be a case of disrespect nor a sacrifice of any kind, especially of a living person.

When the men of Jabest-gilead took the bodies of King Saul and his sons from the Philistines they respectfully disposed of the dead by burning them and then burying their bones. (1 Samuel 31:12-13; 2 Samuel 2:4-7)

Canon Law 1240, of the late 19th century declared that Catholics who chose to be cremated were to be deprived of ecclesiastical burial unless they repented before they died. In 1963 this was somewhat revised but it was still urged to abstain from cremation unless compelled by necessity. Again, this is a theological rather than a Biblical issue.

You do what you feel is right and if that includes the wishes of your family, then no matter what your choice is it is fine with Jehovah God.

Misunderstood said:

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.

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Cremation was widely practised by the Babylonians, Greeks, and Romans but was rare among the Jews.

The corpses of Saul and his sons were burned, the bones , however were buried. (1Sa 31:8-13; see also Amos6:9,10).

When i pass away i do not need thebody 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

Misunderstood said:

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.

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It should be a special honor to be buried on land. I am in favor of burial at sea as the standard way since many Christians are not comfortable with cremation and since graveyards eventually turn the corpses into junkyards. We have all seen huge graveyards full of forgotten corpses. Burial at sea would be at least as good if not better.

Brickjectivity said:

It should be a special honor to be buried on land. I am in favor of burial at sea as the standard way since many Christians are not comfortable with cremation and since graveyards eventually turn the corpses into junkyards. We have all seen huge graveyards full of forgotten corpses. Burial at sea would be at least as good if not better.

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Perhaps I will compromise and have a Viking funeral.

Misunderstood said:

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.

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Be cremated and then become a tree. That's my plan. If I'm to be buried in a hole, I might as well grow.

From the Ashes: 3 Companies That'll Turn Cremains into a Tree - Modern Farmer

Misunderstood said:

What are your thoughts on cremation?

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Mine is already bought and paid for.

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Misunderstood said:

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.

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There are so many benefits to cremation IMO.....I can think of nothing worse than the thought of being a decaying corpse in a box in the ground. Cemeteries can be depressing places.

When my husband passed away, he wanted to be cremated and I kept his ashes for a year. Then on his first anniversary, when I felt that I was ready, our whole family went to his chosen resting place and scattered his ashes there. It is the most beautiful place and anytime I go there I feel that he is peacefully at rest.

I placed a small unobtrusive little plaque on a rock under a tree, in his honor and every year we visit his resting place and bring flowers to place there.....happy that we are another year closer to seeing him again.

Just my thoughts. I hope the darkness lifts for you very soon....

Perhaps we should all be wrapped up and buried under a sapling to create new forests.
Good for all creation and does not add to green house gasses in the same way as cremations.

My late wife was cremated and now rests under an oak tree ovelooking a reservoir, surrounded by hills.

I don't recall the Bible mentioning anything about cremation being good or bad, but if one plans on not being dead, and...say...waking up and pushing a big rock blocking the door of one's tomb out of the way a few days after becoming dead, cremation might be a bad idea.

But I digress.

When my car dies and I sell it to the junkyard, they are free to do dispose of it as they will in whatever means is most profitable for them, whether they want to part it out, put it in the crusher, etc. What they do is no longer of any consequence to me.

Quite similarly, when my body dies, my loved ones may dispose of it by whatever means is the most emotionally or financially profitable for them. Cremate me or bury me; my only request is to not be embalmed (for environmental reasons). What becomes of my body is of little consequence to me.

Perhaps we should instruct our relatives to sell our remains to the highest bidder.
But as it stands now in England and Wales, it is for the NHS to have first pick of the useful bits, that is unless we opt out.
What is left would be good for fertiliser. There would be sufficient stock available to run a couple or so very profitable re processing plants in the UK. which could also recover useful quantities of high grade metals from prosthesis implants.

Misunderstood said:

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.

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