Not everyone is Catholic. I grew up Catholic, but left the Catholic Church.
My father wanted to be cremated. We don’t have him in a closet. That defeats the purpose of keeping his ashes. We have his cremation box sealed to go in my mother’s grave with her when that day comes.
But, as for me. I never want to go in the ground or in a mausoleum as my mom has in place. Graves/cemeteries, etc give me the creeps. Hardly anyone goes to visit, so they are lonely places. As I’ve grown older, I feel cremation is a much more dignified way to deal with the remains, imo.
My Moms, and my Grandmothers ashes are sitting on a shelf, in a place of honor, on my dining room hutch. I have three dogs above them, in their honor spots. Hubby and I call it The Graveyard Shelf! HAHA! Ain’t no way I’m going into the ground. Nope.
My family has been told no obituaries, no services of any sort and no mausoleum or dragging ashes around.
I’ve asked that they scatter my ashes but really I don’t care what they do with them they can flush them for all I care.
I want everyone to just keep on keeping on and be happy.
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But, as for me. I never want to go in the ground or in a mausoleum as my mom has in place. Graves/cemeteries, etc give me the creeps. Hardly anyone goes to visit, so they are lonely places. As I’ve grown older, I feel cremation is a much more dignified way to deal with the remains, imo.
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There’s another alternative. A woman in Sweden invented a process for freeze-drying a corpse in liquid nitrogen. After the freezing, the body is placed in a shaker machine and disintegrated into a thousand pieces. The pieces are placed in another machine which extracts all liquid leaving only a dried, oatmeal-like substance. This substance is placed in a biodegradable container which next-of-kin can then use as a sort of fertilizer for the planting of a memorial bush or tree. Nice alternative for those who don’t like the thought of being burned, or rotting in the ground, or being devoured by insects.