Whost else thinks cremation should be banned?

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I honestly always felt that burying people was rather pointless. The vessel has long since been burnt through, and placing it into a casket into the ground simply takes up space, especially when most people won't even know who you are in a few decades. I'd prefer the nutrients that are no longer mine to be used to help create more life than just sit around being useless.

There is nothing evil or satanic about cremation, but I find your choice of words very interesting. I think the way you see cremation has to do with religion. I would like to be cremated. I prefer that to be buried. I do not want to be buried in a piece of soil that can be used for something better than providing my relatives a burden: a place to visit once a year to clean it up, paint it, bring flowers, and maybe share a tear.

I think burial is wrong. It takes up so much space. Graveyards would be better if used to produce food or as a living space. People should be cremated the their ashes dispersed to the wind or mulched into fertalizer for a tree.

Cremation is fine and fun. Launched some of my mother's ashes in a model rocket, they spread out when the parachute popped open.

I want a "sky burial", leave my body intact on a mountain ledge somewhere so the animals can have it. I say intact because some sky burial ideals cut the body up and scatter it. Don't bother and fuss with mine, if I still wanted it I wouldn't have left it.

I'm a New Orleanian, so when I die, I will be placed amidst the bones of my ancestors whose bodies will have been removed from their coffins to make room, and skattered on the floor of our above-ground grave (aka a semi-open stone box) that sits in the center of the city.

No worries about being trapped, no worries about burning alive and no worries about wasting space... I just sometimes worry about what floats in the water here when it floods.

Hate to toss an old trope into this dark yet harmless topic BUT cremations are being looked at seriously and in depth as a major cause of mercury poisoning in the atmosphere thanks to dental amalgam. EPA has stringent laws and all crematoriums are required to retrofit chimneys with filters... the industry is looking hard at alternative methods of 'final repose'. One of the newest is a freeze drying process that allows for the reclimation of dental amalgams, promotes bio friendly decomposition while reducing a human body into a 6" square box of organic remains that can easily be spread safely in a garden at an extremely low cost.

I'm liking the new ideas! Organic and cheap for me.

I like how people are concerned about the dangers of burning dental amalgam, but not the dangers of -oh I don't know- putting mercury in people's mouths in the first place. lol

How about having my dead body rigged with dynamite and blown up?

I think the OP is pretty hilarious - cremation? Satanic? What?

If, during cremation, the corpse sits up and writhes - then it's because the funeral preparers didn't do their job properly. The tendons of a body should be cut before burning. Otherwise, once burning begins, the tendons will basically shorten as they burn up, giving the impression that the body is moving about.

Case in point - when Rasputin's body was burnt, it was described as attempting to get up. Which led to people thinking that Rasputin was some demon in disguise. The reality: they didn't cut his tendons.

I never thought about cremation much. I wish when I die I can just evaporate into nothing. I don't want any remains. How cool it will be when a person just vanishes when they die, leaving no mess to clean up. Unfortunately as I'm no jedi that probably won't happen. I think scattered into the ocean is the next best option, then the ashes will turn into micro-nutrients which feed the algae, which in turn feed all sorts of fish and then up the food chain...etc. Completely recycled and green is my ideal.