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Closure...so does a memorial service.
But, Nea1, my question is for you, not those lft behind.
why do YOU want the crypt rather than cremation....or even burial at sea.
Since believers in the soul believe it leaves the body and resides elsewhere, I'd like to hear more about why to keep a bunch of bones around forever.
I guess it comes down to a couple of things, which I am sure are silly, but still...
My number one fear is dying in a fire.
Second and this is the silliest, not existing on earth, even in just the body form.
Third, family tradition, goes waaaaaaaay back.
I am sure as I get old, I wont care anymore and it may change.
I can understand all that Nea1, but would have to suggest that you aren't totally comfortable yet with the idea of no life after death.
It appears that your intelligence and emotions are in conflict.
I hope you resolve that conflict to your satisfaction.
Best wishes
I can understand all that Nea1, but would have to suggest that you aren't totally comfortable yet with the idea of no life after death.
It appears that your intelligence and emotions are in conflict.
I hope you resolve that conflict to your satisfaction.
Best wishes
I am ok with it, have no choice. I think my issues are I love living life to much, hate to see it end. Hate to not be a part of it anymore. I dont really have a problem with no life after death, it is a problem with no life.
I'm going to be cremated and have my ashes spread to the winds over the Chesapeake Bay, mainly because I grew up in that area and I see no sense in my earthly remains taking up a piece of real estate that I can't enjoy, as far as the view goes, what better view can there be than the Chesapeake Bay.
Another discussion made me think of this.
Not only silk-lined, pillowed,inner-spring coffins ....more expensive than most people ever spent on the beds they slept in all their lives...but even water-proof ....sunk into a cement lined hole....buried in often quite valuable real estate with great views...views???
Or cremation.
What is the point/purpose of being buried?(or even interred in a masoleum)
The last attempt to not admit that dead is done, that's it, nothing exists beyond, no after life, etc. Is it their ego, their delusion of self importance, or some other character flaw that causes them cling so desperately to there being something else.
How utterly stupid to preserve the body by pumping it full of chemicals, dress them in new cloths, and put them in a sealed box, which is put in a concrete vault. They are still just dead.
I'm going to be cremated and have my ashes spread to the winds over the Chesapeake Bay, mainly because I grew up in that area and I see no sense in my earthly remains taking up a piece of real estate that I can't enjoy, as far as the view goes, what better view can there be than the Chesapeake Bay.
What is the point/purpose of being buried?(or even interred in a masoleum)
The stone placed on it is the last thing left that actually states the person existed. The type of burial is based on the rellgions rituals in connection to death.
What is the point/purpose of being buried?(or even interred in a masoleum)
I love genealogy and I have been tracking my family tree and one source I have used is grave markers for information. In the cemetery my grandmother is buried in so are my great grandparents and gg grandparents. It was a family plot. For myself I am Jew by choice so my grave marker will be in Hebrew and that will mark the first Jewish marker in my family.
Some religions believe that you have to be in one piece, as you were "created", in order to answer the call at resurrection time. A corollary is the reason they don't allow suicides to be buried in certain cemeteries - your "sin" is unforgivable.
Another discussion made me think of this.
Not only silk-lined, pillowed,inner-spring coffins ....more expensive than most people ever spent on the beds they slept in all their lives...but even water-proof ....sunk into a cement lined hole....buried in often quite valuable real estate with great views...views???
Or cremation.
What is the point/purpose of being buried?(or even interred in a masoleum)
You mean, as opposed to a cremation? I'm not paying a dime for my death ceremony. It's just a dead body at that point, and I could really care less what they do with it. Cremation is probably the most sensible alternative. Like you, I don't really see a point to having a lavish coffin taking up land somewhere. At the same time, I don't suppose you could just chuck my body in someone's backyard, the rotting flesh and odor would probably be rather unpleasant. And the flies...man, those would be annoying.
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