When you die, would you rather be buried or cremated?

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   roxygurl464posted 12 years ago

   When you die, would you rather be buried or cremated?

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   menashposted 12 years ago

   Buried.....you body is the carrier of your soul and by cremating it is disgracing it

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      roxygurl464posted 12 years agoin reply to this

      I don't know if burning you're shell is necessarily disgracing it.  The human body breaks down under the earth anyway, pretty much rots.  So, which is better?  Burning the body and leaving behind the ashes or burying it six feet under ground to rot?

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      menashposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      With that logic I should just kill myself now, I mean eventually I will perish so.....whats the wait...your body was used as the holder of your soul, the greatest possible thing besides god himself and your say to burn it's carrier.

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      BigSeriousposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      The buddhists and others believe the body is merely a host. Once our soul departs, our hosts are of little consequence.

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   gmwilliamsposted 12 years ago

   Rather be cremated.   When you die, your soul leaves the body anyway so being buried is a waste of time and space so it is better to be cremated.

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      roxygurl464posted 12 years agoin reply to this

      I agree, it seems like a waste of space to me as well.  Not to mention the fact that we bury any disease the body may have inhibited, which will make its way into the soil eventually.

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   BLACKANDGOLDJACKposted 12 years ago

   Stick me in the oven, please, and turn up the heat.
   
   I would prefer that people remember me when I was alive, and not lying in a casket full of embalming fluid.
   
   The body is your tangible essence and once you die, you're done with it. It doesn't matter how it is disposed of. The soul is your intangible essence and lives on after death.

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      menashposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Your body, when your alive is nothing besides a carrier, the soul is the one running your body and making you, You

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      roxygurl464posted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Good answer.  I hate funerals for that exact reason.  I like to remember people by the good times we shared, not lying in a box stiff.

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   robhamptonposted 12 years ago

   gmwilliams is right. After you die, your body is simply just a carcus at that point. They can bury me, cremate, or feed me to wild animals, wouldn't matter to me.

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      roxygurl464posted 12 years agoin reply to this

      At least being eaten by an animal would mean your body, in a sense, would live on through the animal.

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   lburmasterposted 12 years ago

   Buried for me. Cremated seems as if you wouldn't have existed.

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      roxygurl464posted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Interesting way of looking at it.  Thanks for the response.

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   Amanda Geeposted 12 years ago

   Being a rather unusual person, I want to be mummified. I know it's way out of date, but it's something that I wish done.

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      roxygurl464posted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Wow, is that even legal these days?  And then what would you want done with your mummified body?

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      BLACKANDGOLDJACKposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Amanda, let me guess. "Return of the Mummy" with Brendan Frasier and Rachel Weisz is your favorite movie.

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   BigSeriousposted 12 years ago

   Cremated, or my body donated to science.

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   ChristyWritesposted 12 years ago

   I would like to be cremated. I would like my family and friends to be able to visit me, whether my ashes are spread out somewhere or kept in an urn in a special location. I am more interested in how others will remember me than the form my body takes after I am deceased.

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    Kramarposted 12 years ago

    My wife and i went so far as to buy a couple of slots for our cremation urns. They are all set up and even have our names on them. We go to visit our final resting spots now and agin and have a drink to celebrate. Why not? We don't expect anyone else to visit our asses ... oops I mean ashes.

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       BLACKANDGOLDJACKposted 12 years agoin reply to this

       Are you going to have someone mix up the ashes when you are both gone? It seems to me that would be almost like having supernatural sex.

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       roxygurl464posted 12 years agoin reply to this

       Haha, that's great!  A little depressing, but still kind of funny!

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    FatFreddysCatposted 12 years ago

    Doesn't really make much difference to me, I'll be dead.

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    connorjposted 12 years ago

    I would rather be buried. However, only because before Vatican II our faith did not allow it. Since Vatican II we, Catholics can be cremated (although our ashes should not be spread). I certainly know that our spirit does indeed leave our body upon death; however, I also understand that our body is a "temple" and should not be corrupted in any form. So I am throwing caution to the wind and siding with tradition. Now on a lighter side, if I was to become a Saint and my body was cremated, there would be no way to prove it; well it would be much more difficult...

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