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My remains are unlikely to be dealt with by a church member. I have instructed my husband to have me cremated. He balked at this at first – cited culture as gospel. I pointed out that cremation costs 1/2 as much as burial, and I REALLY did not want to decompose with worms and bacteria and stuff, would prefer to have my ashes out in the world. I also pointed out that there were already so many bodies that God was going to have to put together molecule by molecule what was one more on the equation. I will start instructing him on what I want to have laid out at the funeral. I do not want to be viewed in temple robes. Actually, I don’t want to be viewed at all, but that is probably outside my jurisdiction, and it might help my husband to mourn me.
I am working on getting him to understand that whoever plans the funeral needs to party/wake oriented – that I DO NOT want a boring, mourning, sad send-off. My father and I had a serious discussion about this a few years ago. His recommendation was to request members of Polynesian culture assist with planning the funeral in part because they are so good at planning upbeat events.
My grandfather (who was a philosopher by trade prior to retirement), put the FUN in funeral by having his own funeral a few years ago while he was around to enjoy it. There was even a gorilla suit laid out for the “viewing”.
The funeral is more for the living. I still don’t want my corpse to be dressed in temple clothes.nibbler wrote:
The funeral is more for the living.I still don’t want my corpse to be dressed in temple clothes.
Absoutely true, but you can still have a memorial service and accomplish nearly the same thing.I, too, have asked my wife to cremate me when it’s my time to go. So far, she has downright refused. Barring that, I asked to be buried in anything but my temple clothes. She’s not to keen on that either, and doesn’t want to discuss it. Part of the reason I want to be cremated, is I think it’s disrespectful of the body to have it fester, rot, and, if buried in a quality casket, end up a puddle of sludge. I also think the buiral preparations are… unhealthy for the living. We pump dead bodies with all sorts of preservation chemicals, dress them up in clothes they’d hate to wear, and dump enourmous sums of money which would be better spent anywhere else. It all feels like we’re trying to hold onto someone long after their time has past. When I go, I want to be gone. I want life to carry on without me.
The only upside of burials, is the conservation of energy. Neil Degrass Tyson put it eloquently
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“I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth, so that flora and fauna can dine upon it, just as I have dined upon flora and fauna during my lifetime”There are a few reasons I don’t want to be cremated, but one of them is that I don’t want to be seen as part of rhe world’s climate problem. There are “natural burials” where the body isn’t pumped full of preservatives nor even put in a cascet. It is a cemetery of sorts. At least one I heard of was more of a nature preserve with a portion set aside for these “natural graves”. LookingHard wrote:
There are “natural burials” where the body isn’t pumped full of preservatives nor even put in a cascet. It is a cemetery of sorts. At least one I heard of was more of a nature preserve with a portion set aside for these “natural graves”.
I’ve seen them. Two friends buried this way. Well, not quite. One was in wicker work and the other in card casket. I quite like the idea of trees growing out of me.
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