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Why in the name of all that is holy would anyone need to be buried instead of cremated? It takes up a lot of $$$pace

And is a total rip off monetarily.

Posted - June 22, 2016

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  • 167

    Oh I want to be cremated instead of buried. I am claustrophobic.

      June 22, 2016 5:47 PM MDT
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  • 46117

    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.

      June 22, 2016 5:50 PM MDT
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  • 46117

    No.  You are dead and it really matters little.  LOL

    I get you, I am being silly. 

      June 22, 2016 5:51 PM MDT
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  • 5354

    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.

      June 22, 2016 6:48 PM MDT
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  • 167

    It is okay, I was being silly too lol

      June 22, 2016 8:06 PM MDT
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  • 304
    To each their own
      June 22, 2016 8:44 PM MDT
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  • 26

    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.

      June 22, 2016 8:47 PM MDT
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  • 17619

    It's everyone's choice in most parts of the world, as it should be.  

      June 23, 2016 9:54 AM MDT
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  • 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.

      June 23, 2016 9:59 AM MDT
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  • 46117

    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.

      June 23, 2016 11:42 AM MDT
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  • 46117

    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?

      June 23, 2016 11:50 AM MDT
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  • 46117

    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?

      June 23, 2016 11:53 AM MDT
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  • 1002

    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

      June 23, 2016 12:09 PM MDT
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  • 46117

    Fair is fair.  Yes, Thrifty.

      June 23, 2016 12:16 PM MDT
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  • 46117

    Best answer.  Fork, I am with you.

      June 23, 2016 12:17 PM MDT
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  • D&D

    682

    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...

      June 23, 2016 12:29 PM MDT
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  • 2500

    ANd there's always the Soylent Green solution to the problem . . .

      June 23, 2016 1:06 PM MDT
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  • 46117

    Yummy Salt.

    Let's solve 2 problems at once.  Space and food supply.

      June 23, 2016 1:09 PM MDT
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  • 1002

    Thanks :)

      June 23, 2016 6:51 PM MDT
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  • 22891

    maybe theyre afraid they'll feel it when they get cremated

      June 26, 2016 9:44 PM MDT
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  • 604

    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!! 

      June 29, 2016 8:28 AM MDT
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  • 604

    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??????????????????????

      June 29, 2016 8:30 AM MDT
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  • 13277
    It can be a religious thing with, for example, Judaism:

    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.

      December 5, 2019 12:03 PM MST
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  • 13277
    It can be a religious issue with, for example, Judaism:

    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.

      December 5, 2019 12:13 PM MST
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