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The decision to allow cremation is highly questionable and suspicious. No normal Catholic does this. No one has ever been cremated in my family. Including the Episcopalian side!

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My wife's aunt was cremated and buried in a Catholic service. She was in D.C. at the time, and died of breast cancer. The cremation was so she could be buried in South Dakota and not have her kids pay the transport costs.

I thought that was kind of odd myself. My pastor has at times denied burial to people who have been cremated for wrong reasons, but those cases are few and far between.