And is a total rip off monetarily.
Oh I want to be cremated instead of buried. I am claustrophobic.
Hi Max
It is wonderful to hear from you. While I would never dismiss someone's feeling about being buried and the emotions and traditions being followed, I find it weird that people think burning a body is something bad and letting it rot in the ground surrounded by silk in a box makes it much better.
So, yes, I agree with your assessment. AND? If I did not? I would listen and hear you out. And if you did not like my answer? You are free to come back and tell me why and I will always listen.
Hope this makes me a little easier to digest.
No. You are dead and it really matters little. LOL
I get you, I am being silly.
This is not about sewage disposal, but about people we knew and loved.
Some ceremony is needed. Not by the deceased, but by those who must now go on without him or her.
It is okay, I was being silly too lol
The body was never meant for cremation. I am total against cremation. If anyone cremates me I will come back as a ghost and haunt him or her. It is not a waste to have a proper burial.
It's everyone's choice in most parts of the world, as it should be.
Well, I've been to the funeral "home" recently and burial cost isn't much more than a cremation. Cremation does save on the actual cemetery expenses, but the funeral "parlor" still makes money on both. Also, are they building new cemeteries? I only see old ones.
Golf courses take up more room, but I guess the walking rich dead need to do something.
Jakob,
Why do you think cremation has no ceremony? Burial does not have one automatically either. I agree, Jakob. The dead must be honored as a measure of our worth. We need to know that it takes a conscience to love and put energy towards a departed soul.
Thank you, I do agree about the ceremony. It is just that you can have as long or little a ceremony as you like, you just are not staring at a dead corpse during the ritual and memorial. Sounds a lot more civilized to me.
The body was made to pay slaves to build a city/tomb so you can die whole.
Yes. Makes total sense. And since we are poor, we can get a box and let you slowly stink and rot in a tomb of cheap silk. Underground. How classy.
Who MEANT that to happen? Mother Nature?
Yes, they continually expand on new cemetaries. From the Old ones.
So, you've been to a funeral home recently. You wanna know what the average funeral costs?
At least 7 - 15 K
A cremation? About $300 tops. That is what my brother and I paid. So, you couldn't be more out to lunch on this one, Bromie.
And the golf courses don't take up any more room than an average cemetary. What are you suggesting happens to the bodies? Do you think they dig up the old ones or maybe bury the new ones on top or something like an apartment building? 
Religious beliefs, probably...
I really don't care one way or the other, just do me a solid and expend a 35 cent bullet in my forehead before lighting me on fire or tossing me in the box. I want to actually be dead first. lol
Fair is fair. Yes, Thrifty.
Best answer. Fork, I am with you.
Abrahamic religions.
Do they really think all kinds of creatures won't eat their bodies?
Somebody ought to think of all the natural environments being destroyed so their body can rest in peace. Land is also limited...
ANd there's always the Soylent Green solution to the problem . . .
Yummy Salt.
Let's solve 2 problems at once. Space and food supply.
Thanks :)
maybe theyre afraid they'll feel it when they get cremated
I rather agree with you....cremation is barbaric!! to say the least........ugh......
there are other more pressing things in this world than how much space/land is left for cemeteries!!!
So I agree with you.........completely!!
oh, and new golf courses aren't a waste of environments??????????????
and how about the land and gallons and gallons of water the beef industry uses to raise beef? not to mention the dairy industry??????????????????????
Jewish law ("Halachah") is unequivocal that the dead must be buried in the earth.
As a deterrent measure, cremated remains are not interred in a Jewish cemetery. Furthermore, we are told that many of the traditional laws of mourning are not observed after the passing of an individual whose body was cremated. Kaddish (memorial prayer), however, is recited for such individuals, and it is certainly appropriate to give charity and do mitzvot (good deeds) in memory of their souls.
Responsibility for the deceased's proper burial lies with the next of kin. While ordinarily Jewish law requires the deceased's children to go to great lengths to respect the departed's wishes, if someone requests to be cremated or buried in a manner which is not in accordance with Jewish tradition, we nevertheless provide him/her with a Jewish burial. It is believed that since the soul has now arrived to the World of Truth it surely sees the value of a proper Jewish burial, and thus administering a traditional Jewish burial is actually granting what the person truly wishes at the moment. Furthermore, if anyone, all the more so your father and mother, asks you to damage or hurt their body, you are not allowed to do so. For our bodies do not belong to us, they belong to God.
Jewish law ("Halachah") is unequivocal that the dead must be buried in the earth.
As a deterrent measure, cremated remains are not interred in a Jewish cemetery.3 Furthermore, we are told that many of the traditional laws of mourning are not observed after the passing of an individual whose body was cremated. Kaddish (memorial prayer), however, is recited for such individuals, and it is certainly appropriate to give charity and do mitzvot (good deeds) in memory of their souls.
Responsibility for the deceased's proper burial lies with the next of kin. While ordinarily, Jewish law requires the deceased's children to go to great lengths to respect the departed's wishes, if someone requests to be cremated or buried in a manner which is not in accordance with Jewish tradition, we nevertheless provide him/her with a Jewish burial. It is believed that since the soul has now arrived to the World of Truth, it surely sees the value of a proper Jewish burial, and thus administering a traditional Jewish burial is actually granting what the person truly wishes at the moment. Furthermore, if anyone, all the more so your father and mother, asks you to damage or hurt their body, you are not allowed to do so. For our bodies do not belong to us, they belong to God.
