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Post by James on Oct 7, 2019 1:59:47 GMT
Well if I’m dead, what does it really matter? My body will dissolve either way. Being buried means my body will just rot, and cremation leaves ashes.
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Post by onethreetwo on Oct 7, 2019 2:01:37 GMT
Well if I’m dead, what does it really matter? My body will dissolve either way. Being buried means my body will just rot, and cremation leaves ashes. True, but what's the point of a casket? What purpose does it serve?
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Post by James on Oct 7, 2019 2:04:18 GMT
Well if I’m dead, what does it really matter? My body will dissolve either way. Being buried means my body will just rot, and cremation leaves ashes. True, but what's the point of a casket? What purpose does it serve? Maybe the casket symbolic of a bed, in which the body (and soul) is put to rest. Its purpose is to show that the person who has passed is “resting” in another place.
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Post by Catman on Oct 7, 2019 2:06:41 GMT
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Post by Ass_E9 on Oct 7, 2019 2:27:31 GMT
Prefer cremation. buried burned
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Post by pippinmaniac on Oct 8, 2019 19:30:32 GMT
Buried, in our family graveyard, surrounded by loved ones.
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Post by Fox in the Snow on Oct 8, 2019 22:08:41 GMT
Cremated, on a raft, on a lake
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Post by Roberto on Oct 9, 2019 14:38:54 GMT
Not really, unless it's a green burial. ie one where I am buried somewhere out in the wild just as I am. No embalming, no coffin and no tombstone.
Cheaper, cleaner, better for the environment, and just more natural.
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Post by Stammerhead on Oct 9, 2019 23:08:33 GMT
No, when I go I'm taking a spot of land with me. Cremation is a barbaric Asian ritual. For those who think cemeteries take up too much land, strip malls and parking lots take up more. There's nothing wrong with setting aside large tracts of land in the city with trees and greenery. It helps the environment. I come from a traditional barbaric Asian family.
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Post by Stammerhead on Oct 9, 2019 23:14:08 GMT
We tend to be cremated in my family. The old church near where I grew up has a small bit of land with many old tombstones but people are no longer buried there now but they have space set aside for ashes. We only put a third of my mum there, the rest of her will be scattered at a couple of spots she used to love.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Oct 9, 2019 23:26:04 GMT
I honestly don`t care what happens to my body after i die.
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Post by rogerthat on Oct 10, 2019 0:38:20 GMT
Cremation.
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Post by Schwarzwald Magnus on Oct 10, 2019 1:50:38 GMT
A lot of old cemeteries aren't well taken care of. Funerals are for the survivors of the deceased person but some old cemeteries contain people whose grand kids are now dead so nobody visits them anymore and they fall into disuse. Even newer ones aren't taken care of. They also get bigger as more people die and less graves are visited. It uses up tax dollars and a bunch of embalmed bodies in big oil treated un-decaying caskets isn't environmentally friendly. I don't care if the lawns aren't mowed. It sets apart more space which is not being used for the new WalMart and its parking structure. It's like a shrine for those who came before us. Do you have a better use for the land? Sorry, I'd rather live near a cemetery than a strip mall. It could be anything, not an eyesore. Or at least make it part of some historical cemetery.
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Post by kuatorises on Oct 10, 2019 16:10:16 GMT
Cremated and scattered or buried without a coffin. I'm not a fan of the funeral business. Too expensive. WAAAAY too expensive. I've worked with some funeral directors and they've been nothing but sympathetic an professional, but their profession charges too much money and there's too much waste for my tastes. I wish we'd do something more environmentally friendly. Even with tombstones, I think we could do a "wall". One object, rather than 100s and 1000s that take up a plot of land.
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Post by dirtypillows on Oct 11, 2019 5:04:26 GMT
And if so, why? Is it about trying to preserve your body for as long as possible? I'd rather be thrown into the ocean, or maybe taken to Sea World and fed to the cute porpoises.
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Post by dirtypillows on Oct 11, 2019 5:09:14 GMT
In regards to dead bodies, I see no sentimental difference between an embalmed corpse and an urn of ashes. They both are attempts to "hold onto" a dead person's memory. You haven't given me a logical reason why an urn is better than a grave site? If your concern is space and land surface, I've given you a reason to bury bodies in cemeteries: It sets aside land for greenery and nature and contemplation. You seem to prefer that developers pave it over and build something on it. Why? Sorry, again, for the umpteenth time, I'll take a green park over a strip mall or a parking garage. Yes, but don't hold onto them in a public space.
People are going to be more reluctant to take a casual stroll in a cemetery, than they are in a parkland or botanical garden. If they have no stake, claim or investment in a deceased person that is interned there, chances are 99.9% they will not venture in. Waste of public space and if wandering around cemeteries is something you do for recreational purposes, perhaps you need a new hobby gamey.
I think cemeteries can be peaceful and lovely. Once in a while, I walked around the one in the town where I grew up. They're just well-tended and there is something peaceful and not at all frightening to me about a cemetery. Of course, there are creepy ones, too. I went to Pittsburgh for the first time in 2014, and my friend and I tracked down the very same cemetery that was used for George Romero's "Night of the Living Dead', so that was kinda neat.
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Post by dirtypillows on Oct 11, 2019 5:23:29 GMT
I think cemeteries can be peaceful and lovely. Great for a séance...
Yes, there is beauty in everything. Personally though, I don't feel it is ideal or necessary to create anymore. A thing from the past and that is just being logical. Preserve what is already there and lets look at newer and more open ways of honoring and remembering the deceased. Some would need to get heritage listed to prevent developers from using the sites for further development.
Personally, I just don't like the idea of being buried. I know it's completely illogical and irrational for me to take into account a matter of claustrophobia, but there you have it. Maybe I could be stuffed like one of Norman's birds!
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Post by dirtypillows on Oct 11, 2019 7:44:27 GMT
Personally, I just don't like the idea of being buried. I know it's completely illogical and irrational for me to take into account a matter of claustrophobia, but there you have it. Maybe I could be stuffed like one of Norman's birds!Taxidermy is an unusual and bizarre hobby.
I see fire as transformation. No issue with cremation and I don't care to be buried either.
Yeah, I kind of think so, too. I don't know where the interest originates from. Is it a primarily aesthetic pursuit or is there something darker, more sinister going on?
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Post by Chickaboom on Oct 11, 2019 12:39:24 GMT
I'd liked to be buried in our family cemetery, surrounded by my loved ones who have already passed on. No one in my family has ever been cremated.
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Post by kuatorises on Oct 11, 2019 13:29:18 GMT
You're trying to tell me that people will not have attachments to dead loved ones? You're being unrealistic. My point is that developers will continue to use land for commercial property and high density housing. I just don't see cemeteries as a problem. They're conversely part of the solution to over development. Having a dead loved ones body preserved, is not going to change the fact that they have died. I think it is sad that people have to feel attached to somebody who has died many years after the fact. It is not really living for the now. If anything, the irony is, that it is unrealistic to hold onto the being as a body. Where is the growth?
For business purposes, cemeteries will likely still exist into the future, but highly likely that they will prosper as they have done prior. Over-development is only based on the populous and since life expectancy of humans is increasing, there won't be the same need for burial ground.
What is wrong with you?
People can miss their loved ones and still function, lol.
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