Posted on 03/18/2015 7:30:19 AM PDT by Salvation
I’d want to be there, or somewhere like it... but not burned up... not embalmed... if anything, I’d like to be food for the critters.
Have you seen the new book “Voices of Missouri Rivers” ?
It’s just out from MDC and a pretty good read.
Nice, we scattered my fathers ashes on the site of
the log cabin where he was born. Also a little bit of
him rides with me in my truck.
I am a Buddhist and would like my remains to be
put in the fork of a tree so the birds of the sky
can feast on my flesh, sadly there are laws against
that now but the law never stopped me from doing what
is right.
Cremation was a pagan practice in both Rome and the Germanic lands. It was a way to speed either rebirth in another life or to destroy the body because there was nothing left.
Both implied that the body was not being resurrected
It’s “not a Christian practice” to spend ridiculous sums of money your family needs.
The bones are placed inside the urn with the ashes. This is why a childs urn is smaller than an adults urn.
Actually, in the case of the glass jewelry/suncatchers the ashes or hair clippings burn up and become bubbles at those temperatures. It’s really not creepy at all.
Resin would be another matter.
In early America people would make bracelets of braided hair.
Getting eaten by worms isn’t?
I thought the manufacture of diamonds from compression only produced industrial quality diamonds, but maybe I am wrong.
Or you could be a cubic zirconium.
But those are not worth that much, so this strategy may need re-thinking.
Nice, looks a lot like my place only mine is swampier.
An ash grinder is used to reduce large pieces.
Great minds. :-)
I have an empty 40MM shell and plan in spend eternity in there - the dummy projectile will keep me from wandering.
Besides my name and stats, I will add an inscription: "It appears there is a slight flaw in my theory of immortality".
“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.”
I lost a close friend last year and this was his wish also. Lots of tears and laughter. I now have plans to do the same.
I’ve been in attendance at numerous scattering of seaman’s ashes at sea ceremonies. The ceremonies took place on the fantail.
One stood out as a memory. We had a following sea and when the ashes were being poured out they didn’t go down but drifted up and scattered on everybody standing there. The skipper quickly dropped the box and there was a loud thud when it hit the ocean.
I never thought about it much until I heard my favorite Baptist, Al Mohler, say the burial of an actual body is the last witness to others of the departed Christian’s hope of a bodily resurrection. Granted God will give me a new body and it doesn’t really matter where my body is, a six foot hole or the bottom of the deep blue sea.
Kind of resonated with me though.
Any bones left after cremation get ground up with the ashes them turned over to the family. That’s the reason some of the ash looks like sand.
Not only on this matter.
bfl
Indeed the practice of the sacred “reliquaries” as proof of sainthood or physical proof for belief— exactly like “doubting Thomas” their way to deal with the masses doubting.
Sales, inotherwords.
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