Concerns about Cremation: Some Very Strange Practices Are Emerging

Archdiocese of Washington ^ | 03-17-15 | Msgr. Charles Pope

[Salvation]

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[Salvation]

Monsignor Pope Ping!

[Gaffer]

When I die, I want to be cremated as soon as possible before autopsy and dissection, embalming, if possible.

I want my ashes interred in a sealed metal canister that replicates a large caliber cartridge. 45 ACP appropriately dimensioned and sized would be my choice.

[rfreedom4u]

I am not Catholic but my wife is. I’ve told her that I want to be cremated once all my organs are donated. Then her and our children are to take my ashes to the Virgin Islands and throw me in.

Instead of a “funeral” I’ve asked that they have a gathering to celebrate my life and tell stories about me and how I affected and influenced their lives.

[martin_fierro]

Many funeral homes are now offering “jewelry” made from the cremated remains of loved ones or with the remains sealed within the jewelry. If you don’t believe me, click HERE, HERE, or HERE. The ghoulishness and bad taste are surpassed only by the shock of how suddenly such bizarre practices have been introduced. One can imagine the following awful dialogue: “Hey, that’s pretty new jewelry! Was that your Mom’s?” “Well, actually it is Mom!” Double yikes!

Hey, when I'm gone, compress my cremains into a diamond.

That way I may actually be worth something.

[Responsibility2nd]

Cremation is little more than desecration and a defilement of the human body.

Not a Christian practice.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Either this, or I plan to be scattered over the breakfast bar at Denny's.

[Salvation]

Ashes must be buried.

[Kaled]

Very few if any people these days choose cremation for the reasons it had traditionally been forbidden, namely as a denial of the resurrection of the body.

I never understood the logic of this. Did somebody (unclear on the definition of "omnipotent") believe that it was possible for God to resurrect a dead body, but restoring ashes was just too much to expect?

[Salvation]

Exactly!

[rfreedom4u]

Ashes must be buried.

Wouldn’t buried at sea count? They will still be in an urn at the bottom of the sea.

[Cold Heart]

Interesting analogy about not scattering limbs & pieces in the woods.

However, it did bring up a question in my mind about Saints bones being kept in different churches.

[Salvation]

You can even add your comments at the site. There were already 20 this morning.

[hsmomx3]

I was talking to someone who installs those “ovens” in crematoriums. I forget what they are called so forgive me.

He told me that ribcages amongst other bones remain after the process. I asked him what they do with these and he said he did not know.

The other thing is how do you know if you are really receiving the cremains of your loved one?

I suppose none of this matters after one has departed from this world.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

I want to be here.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Wife’s father asked that his ashes be sprinkled into the Lake of the Ozarks.

[R. Scott]

Like my late wife I am an anatomical donor. When I die my body will go to the University of Virginia, it will be used to help teach new doctors. I feel that is a lot better than sending it to a cemetery. When they are done the body is cremated.
How is that any different than when a person dies in an intense fire, lost at sea or any other way that the body is destroyed? The Bible says that the sea will give up the dead, nothing is said that the body must be intact.

[Salvation]

Sickening.

[Biggirl]

Well if the bishops took a stand in regards to the high costs of funerals years ago, you would not have new problems when it comes to cremation.

[Augie]

My people have instructions to dump what’s left of me into the Missouri River at Ploughboy Bend.