I’ve never understood treating dead bodies or cremains as though some personhood remained within. “We buried Dad next to Mom” makes no sense. When the soul has flown, its fate belongs to another place and dimension.
I’m Christian so don’t come back with any Last Starfighter stuff.
Treat the dead as tradition and/or sentimentality dictates, but don’t believe for one second that one’s loved one resides in a grave somewhere. That’s not God’s intent.
Isn’t that some Last Starfighter stuff..?
“I’ve never understood treating dead bodies or cremains as though some personhood remained within. “We buried Dad next to Mom” makes no sense. When the soul has flown, its fate belongs to another place and dimension.”
That is for the remaining family and friends.
You have to look at it on a purely emotional level.
When mom and dad are buried side by side the children have the same sense of the family being together that was there when their parents were alive.
They have a place to visit and remember the good times.
Humans are frail and very emotional.
They know that the soul is gone and only the frail vessel is left but they need some emotional stability.
When my wife died I was devastated.
My world turned upside down.
I knew she was gone but it is very hard to let go.
I have her remains at home.
I have arranged for me to cremated when I die.
I have also arranged for our ashes to be worked into the rose garden of a local cemetery.
It makes no sense on a logical level, but it does on an emotional level.
I wouldn’t care much for a world where cold hard logic reigns.
I guess I’m just a boring old romantic.
Last Starfighter?
I must have missed that book or movie.