I hate to say it but I’m kind of on her side on this one. I can’t think of any reason for people to be pumped full of chemicals when they’re already dead. And don’t get me started on burial vaults and the like. Talk about throwing money into a hole in the ground. I think the Jews have it right here. A simple shroud and a plane pine box.
If I can’t get my wish of a Viking Funeral, (big party on the beach, at sunset push the boat out into the bay and set it alight) I am going to go for the pine box option.
The Conqueror Worm must have his due.
I would rather have a pine box and no chemicals. Unfortunately I think being buried like that most places is illegal. Maybe they’re afraid I may break wind in the afterlife.
Sometimes I have this weird vision: We should stand tall before the Man in our birthday suits, skeletons; not with all the impedimentia of embalmed flesh.