Whost else thinks cremation should be banned?

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Because being buried in a wooden box that will decompose while bugs and parasites find their way in to eat the flesh of the dead leaving only bones and hair after a time...is a such more godly, pleasant way to decompose than say being burnt...in a ritual in which the idea is your soul/essence ect is freed back to the earth.

I suppose its all a matter of perspective, but burning of the dead has been going on for thousands of years....maybe it's not wrong.


Perhaps it would be healthy to spend less time thinking of the dead if it causes you nightmares....

I'm joining this thread late.
Ban cremation? It's the cheapest way to dispose of a corpse, short of letting the body be eaten by animals or cannibals!

Well, i do think that it's a bloody waste to cremate a body while it's still full of perfectly good organs, but the same is true for burying it...

cremation is a lot better for everyone that is not emotionally invested in the dead person: it's cheaper to do, takes up less valuable land space and could be used to generate a bit of electricity.

i plan to donate my abdominal organs, then have a natural burial, no embalming in a biodegradable cover to be fertilizer.

The original post is absurd.

His whole logic is 'cremation is gruesome to watch therefore it's satanic, therefore it should be banned'.

But if you took a time lapse movie of a body slowly decomposing in a grave it would be equally gruesome, and equally traumatizing to watch as a cremation. The only real difference between the two mortuary practices is the time rate at which the body gets dismantled. Either way the body gets dismantled. Ditto for organ donation. Any mortuary practice is gonna be gruesome to watch.

And the original post isnt even really about a philosophical question. Its really about the poster being psychologically scarred because some stupid grownup let him watch a video he shouldnt have seen when he was eight years old.

He needs to get treatment for ptsd, or whatever, and not waste his time pretending that his psychological issue is a philosophical issue.

Not me. I would like my body to be cremated.

If someone got hit by a train, would you rather watch his loose guts slowly rotting or the whole body immortalized by the power of fire?

Cremation releases tons of greenhouse gases and carcinogens into the atmosphere.

A buried body will decompose and return to the Earth, as living creatures naturally do.

Personally I think cremation should be illegal, not on religious grounds, but because it's environmentally irresponsible.