Cremation vrs Burial

[EricH]

I am going to be cremated. I take the Klingon view:

"It is an empty shell. Treat it as such"

[Guest Biblicist]

I am going to be cremated. I take the Klingon view:

"It is an empty shell. Treat it as such"

Have you been to the Klingon Language Institute?

I will be creamated too. Return to the earth, put something back in.

My mother on the other hand. . . there's a different story! Her funeral director is her good friend and also a huge fan! He plans on having her lay in state for at least a month. He said he will change her clothes every week and make sure her make-up is fresh. That way all the mourners will have the opportunity to visit and revisit her as many times as they like. I am wondering if he plans on a glass case like Snow White. She used to refer to herself as such.

[Vickilynn]

I am going to be cremated. I take the Klingon view:

"It is an empty shell. Treat it as such"

Have you been to the Klingon Language Institute?

I will be creamated too. Return to the earth, put something back in.

My mother on the other hand. . . there's a different story! Her funeral director is her good friend and also a huge fan! He plans on having her lay in state for at least a month. He said he will change her clothes every week and make sure her make-up is fresh. That way all the mourners will have the opportunity to visit and revisit her as many times as they like. I am wondering if he plans on a glass case like Snow White. She used to refer to herself as such.

Shalom Bib,

Is your mom someone famous?

[ladypeartree]

Bibs I am sorry but I just cant stop laughing ...do you have 7 dwarfs lined up as well ????

I plan to be buried in the same grave as my son but God may have other plans and either way it wont matter as I will have no further use for this well worn lump of meat

[Guest Biblicist]

Bibs I am sorry but I just cant stop laughing ...do you have 7 dwarfs lined up as well ????

I plan to be buried in the same grave as my son but God may have other plans and either way it wont matter as I will have no further use for this well worn lump of meat

It's OK laugh it up, double poster! Yeah, likely he will hire seven dwarfs and probably he will dress up like Prince Charming.

No my mother is no one famous, although she enjoys being treated like a celeb and many people used to tell her she looked like Elizabeth Taylor. At our old church she would sit in the hall and "Hold court" as we, her daughters, liked to call it. She would literally sit there and people would come up to her for their hug and kisses or friendly words.

[hupo]

I'm not gonna be using my body when I go, no need to make myself any more of a financial burden on people!

Some of the extremely expensive gravestones out there, and the entire business, reminds me of ancient eqypt and the pyramids. I'm not gonna be needing any possessions for the place I'm going!

Right on !!

[hupo]

When I die, I'm going to donate my body to science. . . .

fiction.

That's a good one, Biblicist

[hupo]

Shalom,

Neither method will affect our rising to be with Jesus. We will have new, glorified bodies, not made of flesh.

So, either way is fine in that regard.

As to the choice, that is up to each Believer and their family and their convictions.

Some choose to be cremated for various valid reasons, some out of necessity, some for their views.

Some choose burial for the same.

When my mom and step-dad were killed in a place crash in Panama, the US Consulate would not allow their bodies to be sent back to the US since the plane crashed into the ocean and the bodies were partially decomposed when they were retrieved. The government gave us no choice in the matter, my mom and step-dad were cremated.

Because we are Jewish, my mom's sister objected to the cremation (as it goes against Jewish tradition), but again, we had no choice, the government refused to do anything but cremate and since they were not on US soil, we could do nothing about it.

However, thank G-d, my mom was a born-again Christian, so we took solace in the fact that the only thing affected was her outward flesh, not her spirit, not her soul and certainly not her eternal, glorified body that will rise to meet Jesus.

Now, when we buried our 3 1/2 year old son, we did it as to our own choices. We did not embalm him, but we did donate his organs that were unaffected. We buried him and yet we know that is not where he resides. His tombstone (a small, flat marker, not a raised stone) says: "Safely in the arms of Jesus." And that is where our son is today, not in the ground.

So, you see these handling of our loved one's bodies has more to do with US than them. If we are Christians, we should choose the easiest method on our families since we will be alive in the spirit with our L-rd.

I find it very touching when people are so open about things in their lives, especialy painful experiences.

I appreciate your openess, Vickilynn, and respect it.

It also says something about this forum, it shows a warm secure place to be open in

God bless you, Vickilynn, and all posters in this forum

May the Spirit be with you

:whistling:

Edited March 16, 2007 by hupo

[Guest Biblicist]

hupo, that's a Steven Write joke. He also said. . .

I got home the other day, put my key in the door and the building started up, so I took it for a spin around the block.

A policeman pulled me over and said, "Where do you live?" I said, "I live here."

Everything is done in monotone. Very funny!

[JIME]

When my Dad died, he was cremated. Then my brother took his ashes per my Dad's request out over the Atlantic Ocean and scattered them there. Now, I really didn't like the idea, but that is what Dad wanted. I have problems with it because I have no place to go to visit him like I do with my Mom when she died. She is buried near my home. So I can see were she is lying any time.

Now, I know that the body is just the shell for the spirit and that the spirit has already gone where it supposed to go when the body dies. I know with confidence that God is absolutely able to resurrect my Dad's ashes back into a body without any problems. He created the earth and everything in the universe from nothing.

The scripture says in Revelation 20:12-13, "I saw the dead, both great and small, standing before God

Edited March 16, 2007 by JIME