Posted on 05/10/2016 6:22:44 AM PDT by C19fan
“I had this epiphany as a thirty-something, that I was going to die someday,” says Seattle-based architect Katrina Spade. As she watched her children, (then 2 and 5 years old) grow up day to day, she thought about a time when they would be 40 years old. And that she would be 70. And that she would eventually die.
She began to look into the options we have for our corpses when we die, and the spaces and rituals associated with them: hardwood caskets, concrete vaults in the ground, carbon-emitting cremation, formaldehyde embalming, claiming a piece of real estate in the Earth as your own for eternity.
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I’m sure not everyone will, but I agree with John Piper’s proposal in the article linked below. I don’t like cremation and I like the idea of composting even less.
“Should Christians Cremate Their Loved Ones? A Modest Proposal”
http://www.desiringgod.org/articles/should-christians-cremate-their-loved-ones
Gross. It’s getting more & more heathen every day. My mother
made me promise I’d have a Christian burial. Aunt Mildred
also said that she believed the bones should be left in
a grave so that they will be resurrected when Christ
returns to this earth. (I know Christ is able to recognize
our DNA in the dust; but the heathens can keep their
fire rituals.) Sorry. This “cheaper” modern day trend
toward cremation is not my choice. - A decent burial is
possible without using the most expensive things they offer
at the funeral parlor; and it is the very last thing one
can do for their loved ones.
“She” has children?
Italy too unless the family pays the grave fee.
Okay, I need some eye bleach.
Dunno ... why do the people taking their clothes off at political protests always seem like they’re the folks who should never ever be undressed in public?
Wow. Just imagine - use grandpa in the garden. It gives a whole new meaning to “heirloom tomatoes”.
I’ve already told my wife that when I die I want to be shot out of a cannon.
Tan me hide when I’m dead, Fred
Tan me hide when I’m dead
So we tanned his hide when he died, Clyde
And that’s it hangin’ on the shed!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4gru7Ial3k
We are becoming more and more pagan, burning the dead is just one more example. My mom had her parents cremated as a burial was so very costly. It was a very difficult time for her as her sister was a nasty thorn in her side throughout the ordeal, I didn’t want to add to her stress by disagreeing over her parents’ remains. I still wish she hadn’t done that.
I recently heard that embalming is optional as is a standard casket. Not sure if that’s true though. Death is amazingly expensive.
I’m sure that I saw “her” in a Men’s room in downtown Sickattle. Goes by Kenny.
We do the best we can in some difficult situations that
the Lord most surely understands. - My grandfather used
to make caskets for his neighbors by hollowing out bee
gum logs. - The women prepared linings for the caskets,
washed & dressed the deceased who laid in state in the
living rooms of their homes before being transported to
the little country church on a farm wagon lots of times
rather than by ambulance. The country preacher preached
the funeral without expecting to be paid. Neighbors
dug the graves in the churchyard, gravestones were not
expensive if they even got a stone. Not everybody could
even afford a gravestone. My uncle died at 5 years of
age & they were too poor to afford a stone (just like
most of their poor neighbors). I stopped at the
Starbuck Cemetery in Perry County to try to find his
grave; but could not without a gravestone to find.
The Lord knows where Clovis is buried!
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