Is this for real? Restless skulls? oh wow...

[Quintessence]

Why would anyone think skulls are uneasy so that they can be buried properly so they can be at rest?

Again, you really can study up on funerary customs and other beliefs and practices regarding the dead throughout the world and throughout human history. I'm personally not that up on it, but I know just enough of Celtic mythos that I'm aware of the importance of the head in particular in that part of the world during antiquity. The head was a person's seat of power or the seat of the soul, so taking it was a way of exerting power over someone even in death. The skull is the one thing you must not improperly bury. I don't doubt a similar idea is found in other cultures. Even just thinking about today, what part of the body would we most identify with someone's identity? Who they are? Almost certainly the head.

 

[The Hammer]

Oh, ok, thank you for mentioning that. Have you ever wondered if they're really not dead?

Not particularly. I don't make a distinction between living/dead.

 

[The Hammer]

Actually that is what the Bible says. And resurrection is raising the dead to life. Nothing "irreligious" about it. Lazarus was dead and was brought back to life. So were others.

I don't really know about all that? Don't personally care about Christianity or it's interpretations of things.

But I don't think this is a universal idea within that culture.

 

[Esteban X]

That's sad.

Not at all, I enjoy the only life I know I have. If my ego-self maintains a discrete existence it is no longer attached to the physical body.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Spoken like the irreligious/atheist.

Bury my body
Lord, I don't care where they
Bury my body
Lord, I don't care where they...
Bury my body
Cause my soul is gonna live with God
-The Animals

 

[YoursTrue]

That's sad.

I don't think so. He's being realistic. Funerals including coffins, interment, gravestones, can be very expensive. Those close to me know my wishes I believe I will be in God's memory and he knows every cell of my body and can restore ME to life at his appointed time. My dead body knows nothing. Yes, it is good to show honor to those we love, but that is for the living...because the dead are forgotten in a short time, a few generations. I know only by hearsay of my great grandparents. I don't know what they looked like, what their personalities were. God knows. And I look forward to meet them one day, if it is God's will.

 

[YoursTrue]

I don't really know about all that? Don't personally care about Christianity or it's interpretations of things.

But I don't think this is a universal idea within that culture.

I am sure you are right in many respects. However, I have read and studied the Bible and believe what it says. God did not tell Adam he would keep living somewhere when he died. No. He said dust to dust. Now that you bring that up about different ideas, yes, you're right. Thank you because it brings certain experiences described in the Bible to the fore.

 

[The Hammer]

I am sure you are right in many respects. However, I have read and studied the Bible and believe what it says.

I'm glad it works for you.

God did not tell Adam he would keep living somewhere when he died. No. He said dust to dust.

Isn't that prior to Jesus though and His message?

Now that you bring that up about different ideas, yes, you're right. Thank you because it brings certain experiences described in the Bible to the fore.

I'm glad I can help you feel better informed.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

I don't think so. He's being realistic. Funerals including coffins, interment, gravestones, can be very expensive. Those close to me know my wishes I believe I will be in God's memory and he knows every cell of my body and can restore ME to life at his appointed time. My dead body knows nothing. Yes, it is good to show honor to those we love, but that is for the living...because the dead are forgotten in a short time, a few generations. I know only by hearsay of my great grandparents. I don't know what they looked like, what their personalities were. God knows. And I look forward to meet them one day, if it is God's will.

It's the lack of care for one's body that is sad. Regardless of what you think about the soul, your body is still you in this life, and is a gift of your ancestors. Regardless of if you knew them personally or know nothing about them, you're still made up of them.

Yes, I understand that you're a JW or something like that. I definitely don't share those views. I just find this feeling that the body is just a sack of garbage that doesn't matter to be a bit disturbing.

 

[YoursTrue]

It's the lack of care for one's body that is sad. Regardless of what you think about the soul, your body is still you in this life, and is a gift of your ancestors. Regardless of if you knew them personally or know nothing about them, you're still made up of them.

Yes, I understand that you're a JW or something like that. I definitely don't share those views. I just find this feeling that the body is just a sack of garbage that doesn't matter to be a bit disturbing.

God gives me the gift of life. He enables me to see life.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

God gives me the gift of life. He enables me to see life.

That's nice, but what does that have to do with what I said?

 

[YoursTrue]

It's the lack of care for one's body that is sad. Regardless of what you think about the soul, your body is still you in this life, and is a gift of your ancestors. Regardless of if you knew them personally or know nothing about them, you're still made up of them.

Yes, I understand that you're a JW or something like that. I definitely don't share those views. I just find this feeling that the body is just a sack of garbage that doesn't matter to be a bit disturbing.

It is God that enables life. Since you value the body so much, it is God that enables the body also. That is why mutilating the body is not right. But skulls do not talk; they do not have feelings; they do not know anything. Similarly there are memorials throughout the world in honor of those killed in war. When people go to war, do you think they wonder about how the bodies will be affected when dropping bombs on them?

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Isn't that prior to Jesus though and His message?

No. In the Bible when you die you die and dead you remain until the Day of Judgment when Jehovah will resurrect the dead and judge them to every lasting life in the Kingdom or eternally destroy them in the Lake of Fire.
There is a passage with the furnace, but it's more consistent that they are cast into outer darkness.
The Catholic Funerary Mass Libera Me even mentions something about being saved from eternal death.

 

[The Hammer]

No. In the Bible when you die you die and dead you remain until the Day of Judgment when Jehovah will resurrect the dead and judge them to every lasting life in the Kingdom or eternally destroy them in the Lake of Fire.
There is a passage with the furnace, but it's more consistent that they are cast into outer darkness.
The Catholic Funerary Mass Libera Me even mentions something about being saved from eternal death.

Ah

 

[Soandso]

That would be performed by living individuals. The dead know nothing about their state. That's how I see it now.

Funerals aren't for the dead; they're for the living

 

[Soandso]

For myself, that is precisely how I feel. Those in charge of public health and sanitation may want to dispose of the body in a "proper" manner, but it none of my concern.

Why? Would you burden your family with what to do with your body once you die without thought? Even if you don't care exactly what happens, disposing of a body still requires someone to do the work and to foot the bill

 

[Kathryn]

I told my kids to take my ashes to the Main River in Aschaffenburg and throw them in there from a bridge and have a party on me.

 

[Kathryn]

Do you not intend on being buried/cremated upon death?

Are they just gonna chuck your body into the gutter because you’re dead so it does not matter to you?

I personally don't care what happens to my body after I die however.

 

[Quintessence]

Funerals aren't for the dead; they're for the living

Depending on the culture, it can be both. I understand that ancestor worship and reverence for the dead has largely fallen by the wayside in Western culture, but it was a mainstay (and still is) in other cultures and historical eras. Even in Western culture we still have mythologies about the dangers of the restless dead - these themes are still pretty pervasive in a pop culture context with the fascination with hauntings, spooks, and ghosts.

 

[YoursTrue]

I personally don't care what happens to my body after I die however.

I'm the same way, although I did make arrangements--while I am alive I hope for a resurrection and what the Bible promises -- everlasting life as God promises. Revelation 21:1-5. (When a person is dead, he knows nothing. So while I'm alive I look forward to a resurrection...) Jesus resurrected his friend Lazarus (John chapter 11). It's a very interesting and encouraging read in the Bible.