Let's say you'd like to be laid to rest in the enormous veterans cemetery in San Diego overlooking the Pacific ~ you can be cremated and go into a columbarium (that big wall around the place) or you can go somewhere else.
Then, there's ordinary whole body burial ~ where you decompose somewhat slowly ~ maybe over centuries, but in the end, combustion does take place and you end up as dust.
My wife and I are both veterans. We choose to NOT be buried near those who didn't serve ~
Let's say you'd like to be laid to rest in the enormous veterans cemetery in San Diego overlooking the Pacific ~ you can be cremated and go into a columbarium (that big wall around the place) or you can go somewhere else. Then, there's ordinary whole body burial ~ where you decompose somewhat slowly ~ maybe over centuries, but in the end, combustion does take place and you end up as dust. My wife and I are both veterans. We choose to NOT be buried near those who didn't serve ~ Neither old nor new testament scripture places any unique requirements on burials. Over the centuries, traditions have arisen but they are just traditions. Scripture doesn't care as to whether a person wishes to have their body deposited in a composting machine, incinerated or stuffed, mounted and placed on display in a museum.