When cremated, some of the previous guy’s cremains are still in the incinerator and mixed in with yours. A bit of you is left and mixed in with the guy after you.
Embalming is quite invasive. I don’t like the thought of somebody messing with my body after I’m gone.
I’d rather be buried “as is” in a plain pine box, in consecrated ground. But I doubt I’ll be able to find anyone who’ll do that.
Embalming is revolting. Buried in a pine box sounds good. It’s just the shell, anyway.
Pine box, consecrated ground? Actually that’s quite possible. Our local funeral home has the pine box option and one can buy a plot before hand in the local cemetery. I’m sure your own preacher can bless the place properly. In terms of family planning it’s not a bad idea to make it easy on your surviving family who might look after your burial. My own family has done that sort of planning going back a couple generations.
Bit of a side note but a brother in law and before him, his wife, wanted to be cremated. They went out in a big cardboard box.
Probably not happening in America if your family needs a death certificate.
Search “green burial” to learn more about this option.