Have you decided what you want when the time comes - burial or cremation?

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  1. annaglomesh profile image59
    annaglomeshposted 12 years ago

    Have you decided what you want when the time comes - burial or cremation?

  2. Ms Dee profile image78
    Ms Deeposted 12 years ago

    I'm leaving that decision up to my loved ones and what they'd prefer. They are the ones who will have to bury me and grieve; so whatever helps them best in that process.

    1. annaglomesh profile image59
      annaglomeshposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      That's easy then...and as you said whatever helps them best...having worked in funeral industry I saw some arguments in families who differed in their preferences for a deceased parent and it got nasty!

    2. Ms Dee profile image78
      Ms Deeposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      That's a good point. I could consider at least asking them separately to see if there will likely be a difference of opinion, and then see if I should be the one who decides.

  3. newcalendar profile image59
    newcalendarposted 12 years ago

    I've never really thought so wouldn't bother either way about it, though my mother says she will haunt me if she isn't buried!

    1. annaglomesh profile image59
      annaglomeshposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      I'm the opposite....cremation for me

  4. innerspin profile image90
    innerspinposted 12 years ago

    I'd choose cremation, it seems preferable to spending years decomposing. Of course, I wouldn't be around to experience either, but cremation just seems better.

    1. annaglomesh profile image59
      annaglomeshposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Absolutely...having been involved in exhumations in my past job....I'm definitely a cremation girl..

  5. robhampton profile image59
    robhamptonposted 12 years ago

    I could care less. When one dies, their soul leaves their body. The physical body is just a carcus at that point.

    1. annaglomesh profile image59
      annaglomeshposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      I would agree about the physical body...

  6. nightwork4 profile image60
    nightwork4posted 12 years ago

    cremation 100%. i think it's selfish to take up room when you die . also i find it kind of strange that people who believe in god or that they have a soul would want to be buried. if your soul goes to heaven or whatever, why the heck is your body buried?

    1. robhampton profile image59
      robhamptonposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Exactly! I believe in God and Heaven, so I wouldn't care if they fed my carcus to wild animals.

    2. annaglomesh profile image59
      annaglomeshposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Agree ... cremation

    3. nightwork4 profile image60
      nightwork4posted 12 years agoin reply to this

      exact opposite for me. i believe when i'm dead it's over so why take up space .

 
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