Burial or Cremation?

[XAAX]

What is your choice?

Is it influenced by your spiritual beliefs?
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I favor Poe...I will be buried in a mausoleum without being embalmed and with an internal(only) unlocking mechanism to the door…Call me paranoid or precautious…Either way, The only way to go for me...

 

[XAAX]

Cremation, I just find it irrelevant and unecessary for anybody to be looking over my dead body during a funeral service, it's kind of creepy. My soul will live on, my body will turn to ashes indefinitley so may as well have it done sooner.

Someone I knew(Stoner) actually had the idea that he would be cremated and then all of the people at his funeral would smoke joints with his ashes mixed in them. He could not understand why everyone, including myself, told him that there was no way in hell we were smoking someones ashes. To this day he probably still wants that...

I always said.."the lunatics are on the grass"...:rainbow1:

 

[Lux et Umbra]

Well the thought of my death is not something I like thinking about (that goes for death in general...my anxiety issues and all).
I think I'd like to be cremated. I'd like to have my ashes (or part of them) scattered somewhere I love...still working on that angle. The thought of burial doesn't really bother me, but I think cremation is more my choice.
My spiritual path doesn't factor into this. In the end I believe we get reincarnated, so what happens to be body doesn't really matter in the scheme of things.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Cremated, and put the ashes into a firework that will have silver streaks coming from it, and a powerful enough explosion to scatter the ashes over a great radius, which would then float down into a forest, all while Disturbed's Remember and Darkness is playing. And then thier song Meaning of Life to be played to remind them thier is still life, and to get everyone remembering for the hard partying, fun loving person I was/am.
Somewhat influenced by my religion, but more by my personal interest. I like silver, fire and explosions, and forests.

 

[michel]

Cremation, I just find it irrelevant and unecessary for anybody to be looking over my dead body during a funeral service, it's kind of creepy. My soul will live on, my body will turn to ashes indefinitley so may as well have it done sooner.

That's the way I see it; I don't want to burden an already over-populated world with my remains - just an "empty shell".

 

[anders]

I find it obvious that it's of no interest to me when that day comes. Burials are for those still alive. I have promised my relatives that I won't argue against their choice.

 

[painted wolf]

Burial, without preservitives, I want to be eaten by others.... I've eaten plenty of things in my life, they should get a turn, its only fair.

wa:do

 

[Monat]

I like the whole idea of my remains being scattered back into the environment. I want to be cremated then the ashes put in a hole with an apple tree planted in the hole. The idea is that the fruit will carry a little part of me then the animals that eat the fruit will carry a little part of me and ect..

 

[James the Persian]

I don't really have a choice. Cremation is forbidden to Orthodox Christians except in exceptional circumstances, so burial it is.

James

 

[RUone2]

My body is to be donated to the Miami school of medicine for teaching then it will be cremated one year later:run:

 

[Booko]

What is your choice?

Burial

Is it influenced by your spiritual beliefs?

It's the choice I would make anyway, but as it happens, the Baha'i Faith does not allow for cremation, unless for some reason local laws require it.

 

[mr.guy]

How do those of us who intend to be stuffed and mounted participate in this discussion?