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.
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!