Whost else thinks cremation should be banned?

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Cremation should only be banned when inflicted on the living.

If you're tossed into the ground, at least you end up as food for worms. Cremation releases your carbon cells into the atmosphere.

I'm going to the closest body farm...

I guess I'm pro cremation, as I honestly think that the Graveyards will run out of space to keep bodies eventually, I can't see people supporting turning, valuable, open space into new Graveyards.

The NIMBYs would have a field day blocking such a idea if its a city or suburban setting.

The person should decide for themselves what they want done with themselves while they're still alive, nothing should be banned. And once someone's dead it doesn't matter what they do, it's not like they're aware of it and I hiiighly doubt once you're dead you'd go "ew" at being buried or burnt.
Because you're dead.

The only place they have a case for banning it outright is Israel. People there were very upset when someone opened a crematorium there a while ago. Otherwise it is a matter of personal choice.

If cremation is evil and Satanic, does that mean the "Christians" who burnt witches back in the day were actually evil Satanists?

I would support recycling human bodies by turning them into compost. Graveyards, cremmation, etc are all a waste of space and resources based on silly superstition - specially graveyards. Pretty sure there are tons of more effective ways to use all that space..

"We sent Grampa to the dirt farm..."

When I die I want to either have my body frozen like Walt Disney so that my body will be preserved or have my body instantly vaporized using a vacuum furnace or something similar so that my body will break down into individual molecules and it will be like it never existed. Either option sounds better than having my body rot in a box in the ground or having my body burned to ashes and left to sit in an urn. I don't care what other people choose to do though. I'd just prefer to have my body either preserved and unmutilated or vaporized as if it never existed.

In one of my first English classes in college, we read a paper on the embalming process.
This is the worst way to "honor" the dead person, since they suck out the fluids, stuff with padding and preservatives, sew the mouth closed (and eyes sometimes), it's really gross and an insult to the dead.
*Now in the case of an autopsy, that is different if it is deemed necessary to find out why the person died or who killed them.

I originally wanted to be cremated because it's so much cheaper and less disturbing. (only $900 in my state)
However, recently I heard about the "Natural Burial" movement in the US (currently not allowed in my state).
Natural burials are just that, a hole is dug in the woods, the persons (Non-embalmbed) body is placed in the hole with a fabric cover and then the person is buried as usual (I think they don't bury quite as far down as in normal burials). The person's body naturally decomposes into the ground, just like people used to be buried!

Embalming fluids are highly toxic, and end up leaching through the coffin/cement casing and into the ground water.
Also, embalmed bodies do NOT decompose properly. It's just a really disgusting process.