Posted on 12/26/2011 11:52:08 AM PST by Dallas59
And the most comforting thing I can say is “Do not speak of him/her as being gone. Speak of them with the same casual voice, for they are only in the next room, they hear your heart.”
I don’t beleive the catholic Church any loger frowns on cremation. They do frown onthe spreading of ash’s and suggest they be buried or kept on Sacred ground.
I’ve always felt so protective over the remains of a loved one, and I suspect I’m not alone. You know they’re not there anymore, but it’s all there is of them in this world, so all the loving care that you can afford to lavish is an easy sell, and the funeral service people know it.
The first death of a close loved one I ever experienced was that of my paternal grandmother. She was a simple woman, who chose a simple funeral, a cappella hymns sung by her lifelong friends in the Primitive Baptist Church her great uncle founded. But still, the flowers just rained down even though she would have disapproved, she was well known and well loved.
I came home from college to attend, and was a pall bearer for the first time. It began to snow during the graveside service. All I could think of driving back was that it was snowing on her flowers, and how sad that was. She’d have been embarassed, but she did lover her flowers in life.
All manner of peculiar things go through ones’ mind during times like that. I actually don’t remember a great deal about my father’s funeral, I’m pretty sure I was in shock the entire time. Just the thought of standing in a receiving line caused me to feel as if I would pass out. I didn’t. It was not an easy thing to make it through, though.
Is that the place next to the bait shop?
Many find comfort in different ways.
“Chia Pop?”
He wasn't cremated, but crucified, died and was buried (not that you should be crucified).
That's the way I'm going. I want to be buried.
It's next to the new EMS ambulance barn.
Fails to inspire confidence in their EMS abilities but the logistics are sound.
That’s just crazy. Once the soul has departed, the corpse is nothing but dead meat. It is no longer the Temple of anything.
Of course, the multi-million-dollar Catholic cemetery business would go bust if the Church taught otherwise.
Everything in the Catholic Church comes down to money.
Cremation costs about a thousand bucks.
A traditional Catholic funeral with 3 days of waking, Church ceremony, and burial comes close to $10,000 (for a moderate bash).
Wouldn’t that have made the Resurrection a little different?
Good call! LOL!
>>The bible is a book of fables, written by people who had nothing to do with Christ.<<
What goes around, comes around.
If you are looking for peace, best to spread good will. Slamming the beliefs of Christians is not kind and will not make you feel any better in the long run.
Peace.
Are you telling me one who is burned to death in a auto accident, house fire, ect,will not go to heaven? I would think one strong in their Christian faith that it wouldn’t make a difference.
Manure, as in fertilizer.
Is there a Biblical prohibition of cremation? If not, it’s a creation of man - not God. And hence there is NO bigotry involved in pointing it out...
Just unrighteous indignation at the revealing of truth.
I’ve always been partially to being launched into the sun myself....I can come back to warm those I love and give skin cancer to those who were not so nice ;)
Yes, and just think of the thousands buried at sea! Food for the fishes. All those swept away by tsunamis; drowned and eaten by sharks in WW2; fishermen lost at sea throughout the ages.
It’s about time people brought some common sense to this issue.
OH!!!! Silly me.... ;-)
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