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So, I had a heart attack a year ago, and it got me thinking about death and dying. The good news is that I have a feeling it’s all going to work out OK after death, in spite of my inactivity. I don’t know why, but it’s just a feeling.
One thing I have wondered about is whether I should be buried in my garments. Is there any practical benefit to this? Why do we do this anyway as a standard Mormon practice. Would you make it a part of your will that you should be buried in your garments? Particularly if you don’t wear them in your day-to-day life?
I am planning to be cremated and I will be leaving information about NOT putting me in garments to be burned. But I view this body “more as a rental” and a funeral more about what the ones left behind need rather then what a funeral says about the individual.
There used to be a time when the RS would dress the women for the funeral & burial. The men would be dressed by the PH. They would put on the garments & temple robes. Is this true? And, is it still happening? Or, am I missing something? (It wouldn’t be the 1st time.)
Many in our family & community are not familiar with LDS customs & beliefs. Some will be shocked if they see me in a box will the temple clothes.
My belief currently is I wasn’t born into this world with garments & temple robes. I’m not going out that way.
It is true. Does it still happen? I do not recall. The last viewing I attended. no robes, etc. Just a suit. Friedrich wrote:
It is true. Does it still happen? I do not recall. The last viewing I attended. no robes, etc. Just a suit.
Was this a member who was endowed & currently active?
I believe it’s still standard to dress endowed members in their temple garb for burial. Like SD I have reflected on this a bit and while I kind of get where it comes from (resurrection and all) I also think it’s kind of weird and I’m not sure I want it. In the likelihood I die before my wife she’ll probably do it. Whatever, I’ll be dead, what do I care? Just as a general aside here, I don’t hold much belief in the idea our actual bodies are brought forth from the grave, etc. I’ve always wondered about the whole decomposition thing (even embalmed bodies decompose), not to mention those whose bodies were destroyed by fire or eaten by a shark or tiger.
I do wear garments pretty regularly. I think that if I were to die in the near future, I would want to be buried in my garments and temple robes. My purpose is because I believe that this might be comforting to people that I care about. The comfort that it would give to some outweighs the weird vibes it gives to others.
AmyJ wrote:
a funeral more about what the ones left behind need rather then what a funeral says about the individual.
If I were to die in my 90’s then the composition of my family might change (death of parents/siblings and birth of a whole new generation) and I might revise my thinking.
Minyan Man wrote:
Friedrich wrote:
It is true. Does it still happen? I do not recall. The last viewing I attended. no robes, etc. Just a suit.
Was this a member who was endowed & currently active?
Yes it was.
I want to be created. If I am buried, I want it to be in whatever way brings the most peace to my wife, if I die first – which would be in my temple clothing. If she goes first, my kids can choose – and I think the active ones would support my wish to be cremated.
If there is a physical resurrection, it won’t make a difference no matter what is done.
Old-Timer wrote:
I want to be created.If I am buried, I want it to be in whatever way brings the most peace to my wife, if I die first – which would be in my temple clothing. If she goes first, my kids can choose – and I think the active ones would support my wish to be cremated.
If there is a physical resurrection, it won’t make a difference no matter what is done.
I thought about it, and I am not a scientist and have limited information on the subject.
The reasoning I heard was that people were being buried so that their “parts” were in the same place and could be easily reconstituted (different wording).
– This doesn’t make sense to me because everything the earth does is in cycles. Just is there a rain evaporation cycle, there is a life-death cycle. It made more sense to me that the atoms in my body as a “living body” were “borrowed” from someone who had died at some point, and were going to be “passed on” to someone else (eventually – may have to make it up the food chain). I would rather be cremated then left to mold someplace because I might need those atoms later – they are not “mine” to begin with.
– Which makes it easy to speculate that the 1000 period where people are being resurrected could be a planned phase of an “atomic supply chain issue” where people aren’t being resurrected until galactic deliveries of atoms occur:)
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