No commandment against it in Scripture. I personally wouldn’t do it. Jesus was buried (in a tomb), so for us that’s the example that was set that should be followed.
I had a nightmare after my mil was cremated. I dreamed that we got dressed up and went to a building (I didn’t know it was the crematorium). She climbed into a box on a conveyor belt and then traveled into the flames, still alive. I was screaming trying to get the conveyor belt to stop, and woke up. It’s obvious I don’t like cremation :(
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.
A worse scenario is being *mistaken* for dead and waking up too late in the mortician’s lab...or underground.
No thanks.
If I’m cremated, I’ll actually be dead, for sure.
What will you do if you have a worm food dream?