What ya' think about Soylent Green? :noid:
toldailytopic: Burial vs. Cremation: does it matter what happens to your physical bod
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What ya' think about Soylent Green? :noid:
Oh my gosh! I remember that movie. Creeped me out!
No, I said having a tattoo done is worse than being cremated. Didn't say anything about the other thing. And that's largely because when you're cremated, you're already dead. So...can't really see that as any kind of self-mutilation since that's not really any kind of self anymore or anything you're even involved in, beyond the decision made however long before.
Yeah, that. :chuckle:Again, prove it. OR- I can at least give you a leg to stand on.... tattoos happen while we are alive, and therefore are of more importance than what happens to our flesh after we croak.
I have actually thought a couple of times, at funerals of people I cared for and grieved losing, and where the folks at the funeral home were compassionate and gentle...how that must be a great job. I remember each time I was touched and very grateful for those folks. So, hats off to yah there, Psalmist. :e4e:
The fiddin' with dead bodies thing, though. That part I couldn't do. :nono:
One Eyed Jack
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I think they did something like that to a guy back in the '90s. IIRC, they scanned him and sold the images on CD-ROM.
lightbringer
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No sir, I had enough of the oceans and seas while being a Captain and for the virgin, that would sure be a waste, was never much of the Viking kinda guy.
Spread the ashes so the grass can grow and a cow can come along and eat it...then I'd be home for sure! South East Texas!:neck:
Thank you, that's very kind. When people find out that about me and the funeral thing some of them can get a wee bit nervous and stand offish.
Mortuary school was two years, the first six months was embalming and restoration, while on the job training, classroom activity was the business end for some, but all had to take the psychology and grief counseling classes. Embalming and body prep is not for the squeamish by any means, so far as students are concerned the embalming part of schooling it will get the morbidly curious out mortuary school.
I lasted seven weeks in the embalming and body preparation phase and opted out, it is a bit much. But I continued with the rest of the courses while doing my on the job training for funeral director and funeral arranger.
Though I'm retired from it, what funeral service has done for me as a nursing home chaplain it has helped me with helping the families at the nursing home with final arrangements, and for some to officiate their loved ones funeral service.
I lasted seven weeks in the embalming and body preparation phase and opted out, it is a bit much. But I continued with the rest of the courses while doing my on the job training for funeral director and funeral arranger.
Though I'm retired from it, what funeral service has done for me as a nursing home chaplain it has helped me with helping the families at the nursing home with final arrangements, and for some to officiate their loved ones funeral service.
Why is out of the question? Scripture please....Ezekiel if you need a hint. All threads lead to MAD.
Well, a couple things play into this--traditionally the Jews have buried their dead and it was a way to distinguish themselves from their pagan neighbors. The Romans, for example, often cremated their dead. It's my understanding that the Jews have historically regarded the practice as disrespectful.
After the Holocaust, the idea of being cremated was (and remains) incredibly abhorrent to many Jews.
It saves space, for one thing. And for another, there's no way to determine if the ossuary found was that of the biblical Peter.
So does putting the bones in a box in the ground to decompose.
It was just in a tomb with other early "Christians" and has his name on it. Exactly as it is recorded.
See above, comments on disrespecting remains of dead, etc.
It's a common name and there is no way to determine for certain if it's the biblical Peter or not. At all. And this tangent has zero to do with this thread. (I mean, really, if you want to take the word of the Catholic Church on faith, knock yourself out.)
I like the way the monks did it
first you are buried
and
later your skull is dug up, engraved, and placed on a shelf
first you are buried
and
later your skull is dug up, engraved, and placed on a shelf
What I've been told by Jews that I've asked is that they consider their bodies to belong to God. So, no piercings or tattoos in life, and no destruction of the body in death.
I don't know if that's an official teaching, or more folk tradition though. But Jews often choose which parts of their religion to apply to their lives and in what ways.
Quincy
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I have a field that I own where I want my ashes scattered. Don't want them up on a mantle or in some monument, that's for sure. That's a little creepy for me but I'd prefer to be cremated and have my ashes returned to nature also.