Jewish burials are never (supposed to be) embalmed.
The coffin (or simple shawl — or cardboard box) is 100% natural.
Don’t let the liberals find out — or they will suddenly oppose the practice.
Yes, it is a much more civilized tradition.
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.
Recently went to Israel. Noticed those buried had their feet facing Jerusalem. Is that correct?
I also asked our tour guide about the significance of stones placed on graves and the building of the Temple. Just fascinating.
Jewish burials are never (supposed to be) embalmed.?
Genesis
50 When Jacob died, Joseph hugged his father and cried over him and kissed him. 2 He commanded the doctors who served him to prepare his father’s body, so the doctors prepared Jacob’s body to be buried. 3 It took the doctors forty days to prepare his body (the usual time it took). And the Egyptians had a time of sorrow for Jacob that lasted seventy days.
Betcha Joseph got the same treatment.
And they are fast. I think they are on to something.