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Cremation gaining acceptance, study shows
Baptist Press ^ | Mar 26, 2014 | Bob Smietana

Posted on 03/27/2014 11:44:44 AM PDT by Graybeard58

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I want my funeral to be as cheap as possible, that means cremation. Where I'm going, I'm going to have a new body anyway. One without pain of any sort.
1 posted on 03/27/2014 11:44:44 AM PDT by Graybeard58
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To: Graybeard58

same here.


2 posted on 03/27/2014 11:47:05 AM PDT by corlorde (forWARD of the state)
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“If someone’s body is cremated, there is no way for them to be resurrected to live in heaven.”

Does this mean believers who die in fires, plane crashes etc... are not allowed in heaven? No.


3 posted on 03/27/2014 11:51:09 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Graybeard58

my thoughts exactly


4 posted on 03/27/2014 11:51:15 AM PDT by BipolarBob
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Yup. After I'm gone, I don't want my family to feel obligated to maintain my final resting place, or feel tied to that geographical location. I want them to cremate me, scatter my ashes in the mountains, and keep me in their memories. That's all I can ask.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

5 posted on 03/27/2014 11:51:56 AM PDT by wku man (We are the 53%! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUXN0GDuLN4)
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"If someone's body is cremated, there is no way for them to be resurrected to live in heaven." Only 8 percent agree.

Sure would be interested to hear from the 8 percent. What do they base this opinion on?

It sure doesn't say much for your belief in an all-powerful God if you believe he's incapable of reconstituting a body destroyed by fire.

6 posted on 03/27/2014 11:52:31 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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It’s the new American response to “cheap” ... :-) ...


7 posted on 03/27/2014 11:52:46 AM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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I’m in for the roast and toast also, but don’t agree with the scattering of ashes unless there is no surviving family. I believe humans need a place to visit, to remember, grieve and share. My Grandmother, without telling anyone had My Grandfather cremated and his ashes dumped at sea by a high turn over operation. The rest of family have never gotten over the lack of place to visit.


8 posted on 03/27/2014 11:53:00 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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cook and send the ashes to the landfill!

Wasting real estate on dead bodies should be illegal!


9 posted on 03/27/2014 11:59:18 AM PDT by dalereed
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Anyone can have a marker made if they want one. You can even purchase a cemetery plot to place a marker on if you want - or you can place it wherever you wish.


10 posted on 03/27/2014 12:00:00 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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Cremation is not so “Green” as it takes plenty of energy to complete a cremation. Embalming fluid is not necessary but is usually done even when the body does not cross state lines. There is no reason for embalming when the corpse can be kept at about 35 degrees until ready for veiwing or funeral.


11 posted on 03/27/2014 12:01:24 PM PDT by Monterrosa-24 (...even more American than a French bikini and a Russian AK-47.)
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Reminds me of a girl from Hong Kong who when traveling across America asked, “Why cremate anybody here?” "There is so much room." Of course no follower of Confucius would consider space for the dead a waste.
12 posted on 03/27/2014 12:05:30 PM PDT by Monterrosa-24 (...even more American than a French bikini and a Russian AK-47.)
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Cremation would be fine with me. There is probably a term for where Urn-contained ashes could be stored indefinitely . I don’t think Mortuary is the right term. I would like someplace to go and peacefully contemplate a loved one now deceased. I would prefer not to store the ashes in my home unless I was confident no one would bother the urn. If I had money to purchase a couple of acres, I would not use it to inter coffins, but solely to display and maintain gravestones. It may sound morbid, but I have often thought about it. My mom died in the eastern part of the country, an area I rarely visit. I have often wished I could set up a quasi tribute headstone over here in the west, one I could easily visit a few times a year. If someone owned such a business, they could easily move it to a new location in case they were leasing, and the property became too expensive to stay there.


13 posted on 03/27/2014 12:05:52 PM PDT by lee martell
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Creamation is where I’m heading since my first choice...trash bag at curb....seems to be frowned upon.


14 posted on 03/27/2014 12:09:32 PM PDT by prisoner6 (FREEDOM)
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To: Monterrosa-24

I noticed this the last time I ate a fast food burger


15 posted on 03/27/2014 12:10:45 PM PDT by inpajamas (http://outskirtspress.com/ONE)
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“But the main reason, as you might expect, is cost. Cremation is cheaper than burial. The average cost of a funeral today is about $6,500, including the typical $2,000-or-more cost of a casket. Add a burial vault, and the average jumps to around $7,700. A cremation, by contrast, typically costs a third of those amounts, or less. In a tough economy like the current one, cost counts – a lot. “

http://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/cremation-hottest-trend-funeral-industry-f1B8068228


16 posted on 03/27/2014 12:14:55 PM PDT by skinndogNN
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Cremate me, bake my ashes into a cake with icing that says ‘Eat Me’, send to ex wife


17 posted on 03/27/2014 12:15:48 PM PDT by HonorInPa
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To: lee martell

mosoleum, i think


18 posted on 03/27/2014 12:18:24 PM PDT by Shamrock498
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To: lee martell

Mausoleum is the word you’re looking for. As I said above, you can buy a cemetery plot anywhere and place a marker. You don’t have to body to bury. You can bury ashes, you can place a marker.

This has come up a few times in my own family. One instance, the husband of an aunt was estranged from the rest of the family and he did not tell us where he placed her. We bought a marker for her anyway, in the family plot.

Another, a man was widowed twice, decades apart, and both wives were buried in different places. Arrangements had been made at the death of the first to bury him with her, so he was buried with his first wife. He was also given a headstone next to my mom, his second wife.


19 posted on 03/27/2014 12:23:18 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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The Creamation of Sam Mcgee

Poem wirtten by Robert W Service. Recited by YouTuber Urgelt

20 posted on 03/27/2014 12:26:35 PM PDT by prisoner6 (FREEDOM)
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