Cremation or burial?

[Bojack Horseman]

As this is an impending fact in my family, it's become a topic of discussion. My grandmother has had two strokes and is now developing dementia, and so my aunts and cousins are purchasing cremation jewelry (as apparently you can have your loved one's ashes placed in a necklace) when she's not even dead yet.

So what's your choice? Personally, I'm going with burial. I don't like the idea of my body being incinerated, even if I am dead.

[The Dowager Mod]

Cremation.

[NeverAgain]

Cremation.

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immortality

[DavidB.]

Burial (normal Jew)

[windjammer]

Burial (catholic)

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Burial

[Classic Conservative]

Burial (catholic)

[Torie]

Just toss my body in the sea, and let the sharks consume it. Save the planet.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Just toss my body in the sea, and let the sharks consume it. Save the planet.

Why do you hate sharks? 

[TJ in Oregon]

This thread should be moved to the 2016 Board

In all seriousness, Burial. Cremation isn't forbidden in Catholicism but I prefer to do things right, the way it's been done throughout history.

[Grand Wizard Lizard of the Klan]

Burial (catholic)

[DINGO Joe]

Cremation, who wants their body to rot away?

[Goldwater]

Cremation, I don't see the point in leaving my dead body in the ground to rot.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Once I'm dead I honestly won't care.

[Grand Wizard Lizard of the Klan]

Once I'm dead I honestly won't care.

But how your family will spend one hour on perfect putting/matching candles at 1st of November? :I

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Once I'm dead I honestly won't care.

But how your family will spend one hour on perfect putting/matching candles at 1st of November? :I

They can always have my cremated remains buried. It's illegal in our country to just scatter cremated remains. I know, since my father wanted this but ended up at Powązki anyway.

[Grand Wizard Lizard of the Klan]

Once I'm dead I honestly won't care.

But how your family will spend one hour on perfect putting/matching candles at 1st of November? :I

They can always have my cremated remains buried. It's illegal in our country to just scatter cremated remains. I know, since my father wanted this but ended up at Powązki anyway.

I want to have tombstone made of sandstone (simple, cross on small obelisk) like in old, village  cemeteries but I really wouldn't be sad afterlife having knowledge that I ended up at Powązki :I

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Burial. I hate cremation and I dislike people like my mother who want to bedevil me and my descendants with her ashes for an eternity.

No seriously, my mom not only wants me to keep her ashes until I die (and then pass them down to my kids), but also keeps my grandpa in an urn in our living room and even brings him out at Thanksgiving. It's disgusting, and my grandpa wanted his ashes to spread by his children in different places that meant something to him, not to be kept in a ing glass urn on the table. My Aunt and Uncle spread them over the New River Gorge, something he'd love being a native of WV.

My mom, meanwhile keeps him as a parlor toy, and is probably going to do the same to her mother. Frankly, if I don't spread the ashes myself somewhere after her demise, she's gonna sit in an attic. This is why people need to be buried. There's a reason the early humans didn't leave them to rot in their caves. It's not about sanitation, it's about being rid of a cumbersome dead body .