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I think the whole funeral business is a waste of money. Why spend big bucks on a casket and burial plot? Who cares how comfy or waterproof it is?
Cremation isn't much better. You are still paying a lot of money to burn the body and the urn probably isn't cheap, either.
I want to go to the Body Farm. It is where they lay out bodies to rot and study how they decompose and use that information to help solve crimes. I'd like to do it because the idea of laying in a field and being eaten by bugs and vultures sounds cool to me.
However, the idea creeps out my wife. So I told her to send me to the medical school for scientific research.
Having in the past worked at a research institute that used human bodies...when they're done with the body it still has to be disposed of, either by burying or by cremation, which still costs money. It's not like they can just put them in a Hefty and toss 'em in the dumpster.
WASHINGTON - Norma Hooks described laying her sister, Leona Miller, to rest in the Chesapeake Bay as a "wonderful experience."
Miller's cremated remains, combined with an environmentally safe cement mixture, were cast as an artificial "memorial" reef and personalized with Miller's "jewelry and knickknacks," said Hooks, 64, a Finksburg resident.
The memorial reefs, also located off Ocean City, become new habitat for sea life, according to Don Brawley, founder of Eternal Reefs, Inc., a Georgia-based company that provided the service.
I see it a little differently. I think she finds comfort in being able to physically go and visit the spot where her ancestors are buried. Not because she thinks that their spirits are still there or anything, but we humans like mementos in our lives. A gravesite is a memento of the person who is dead. I think Nea subconsciously wants to leave that of herself behind so that her descendents and relatives can have that memento of herself.
Funerals and gravesites are for the living, not the dead.
I agree. And while I absolutely LOATHE what is sometimes is nothing more than a complete and utter lack of taste and respect, and sometimes it seems the whole ceremony is based on "showing off". Limos, silk-lined, ornate coffins, and other ostentatious aspects of what some believe are "part" of a funeral are obnoxious and just gross (especially when there is a "viewing" of the body, which I personally find disturbing and spiritually reprehensible). However, as per the basic want for an actual "burial"- I can appreciate and understand that those left to mourn the loss of someone they love, find comfort in having a particular place to physically "visit" them. A dear friend of mine left his grieving parents in a state of dismay when they discovered that his wishes were to be cremated, as they very much wanted a gravesite for him that they could visit. But we all came to a wonderful compromise! He was cremated, but his folks still selected a gravesite for him, complete with a lovely headstone. Some of his ashes were sprinkled there at the grave, and the rest dispersed as he wished, and all were happy.
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Originally Posted by LongtimeBravesFan
I think the whole funeral business is a waste of money. Why spend big bucks on a casket and burial plot? Who cares how comfy or waterproof it is?
Cremation isn't much better. You are still paying a lot of money to burn the body and the urn probably isn't cheap, either.
I want to go to the Body Farm. It is where they lay out bodies to rot and study how they decompose and use that information to help solve crimes. I'd like to do it because the idea of laying in a field and being eaten by bugs and vultures sounds cool to me.
However, the idea creeps out my wife. So I told her to send me to the medical school for scientific research.
Well I'm a big fan of doing anything and everything with our human remains if it can help the living! And as for being laid out to just rot and be eaten by worms and picked at by vultures...sounds good to me, but this ain't Little House on the Prarie anymore, and I don't think there is a place remote enough to contain the stank that the bodies of those of us who might share your last wishes would create!
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