I was going to ask about Jewish custom on this, because I remembered something about it from a friend’s death. Just a plain wooden coffin, no embalming.
I think that you can be composted in the ground if you choose a rural enough place - a lady recently died who had a YouTube cooking channel, and she and her husband were both buried that way.
I prefer cremation, when I’m done with this meat vehicle. It seems clean and very symbolic, recognizing that the *person* is not/never was the body.
“I prefer cremation, when I’m done with this meat vehicle. It seems clean and very symbolic, recognizing that the *person* is not/never was the body.”
We have pre purchased mini vaults in our church, side by side for our ashes.
However, we are also, looking at our ashes becoming part of a bench in Bodega Bay, overlooking the bay/ocean. The benches are a fiberglass composite with the ashes and should last for 100+ years. Half of our ashes would be in one mini vault in the church and the other half in the bench in Bodega Bay.
Our two favorite places in this area/world,
In fact, while not a requirement (and if laws/situation allows), the preferred practice is to drill holes in the bottom of the coffin to speed the process along.
From dust we came and to dust we shall return.