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Harryfeat:
Hey All,

I once thought that there couldn't be any topic more fraught with argument than the topic of religion but I was wrong, at least about my family.

I never felt like getting embalmed like an Egyptian pharaoh was my cup of tea.  It also seems that the Israelites may have taken many of their burial customs from their time in Egypt as well.  It is kind of funny but these pagan embalming burial customs and open casket viewing  of our western culture seem far more barbaric to me than just plain cremation or natural burial without formaldehyde. ;)

My wishes are to have all organs harvested and the remainder cremated.  After discussing this with family, I was threatened with getting my wish sooner than I expected :o ;D

Someone here previously mentioned selfishness, well I was accused of selfishness because I don't want my remains to lay next to my wife.  I told them they could spread my ashes there but it is not the same to them.

The thing that really surprised me was comments about donating organs and won't that be a problem later. It seems that there might be some confusion about Christ's resurrection and the type of body he had before he ascended to the Father.  If Jesus didn't need His body then why was it missing from the tomb?  You can't desecrate your body like that.  etc., etc.

I have been fighting both sides of my family on this.  My wife says she will do as I wish but disagrees with me.  We decided to put my wishes in my will so she doesn't have to fight with her or my family when the time comes.    It seems like a morbid topic but it has also been a source of many chuckles for me at times just thinking about the absurdity of some of the thinking.


Thanks for your post Darren, I am glad I am not alone. 

be blessed
feat

Kat:
Hi Darren and feat,

I'm with you on this thing. 
when I'm dead and my spirit is gone from this world, nothing that remains is of any value whatsoever and I don't like the thought of my corpse lying around somewhere.  To speed the process and have it return to dust immediately is my desire. 
What seems morbid to me is the way people attend the grave site of a dead person.  I think they may actually believe that their loved one is up in heaven observing how they are taking care of it  ::)  Anyway that's just my opinion, I just don't like the idea of that. 
Scather my ashs to the wind and be done with it, is what I want.

mercy, peace, and love
Kat

D Student:

Hello YellowStone,

   YOU wrote,

  " I do not want to be remembered by where I lay "
   _           ____
       
      " I want to be remembered for who I was " 
       ______
 
  " I therefore want my ashes to be let loose on a mountain top over looking a lush green valley. "
   _              _____

 Hummm, what does GOD want???   I know what YOU want.
 Why, over looking a lush green valley? If it was dumped in a ditch, would it be less meaningfull???

  No disrespect, just questions...


 Still wondering...  Does he give us right to destroy our body as we are living???

 So what would be the difference when we are no longer living???

  A Follower asked Jesus to wait for him, untill after his Father is Burried, and Jesus tells him something,,,
What was it that he said???

  Is it mentioned anywhere in the Scriptures where Followers/Believers CHOSE to be burned after death???

  I respect all comments being made, but could anybody answer any one of these questions?

 If someone can show me where SPEEDING up the process is mentioned in the WORD of GOD, I'll buy it...

  Thank you ALL...                                                                        D Student


P.s.  I'm not fighting to prove that casskets/coffins/funerals are important or neccesary. If possible, I would hope they could dig a hole in my Backyard and throw me
       in naked, with no ceramony, just as I was brought into this World...
      Plus I'm marked as an Organ Donar...
     

GODSown1:
hmm...
        All I hav 2 say is "GOD is in CONTROL", Peace 2 U all
        muchLOVE!! Pera

YellowStone:
Good Questions D,

But do you really think God cares what happens to our lifeless bodies once his Spirit (breath) has returned to him who gave it?

Ecc 12:7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

I do not believe for a second that God needs to worry about where I am buried or where my ashes fall during the resurrection.

You ask, why the mountains? And my answer to you is why not? :)  

But really, will I know or even care if my ashes get flushed down the sewer.

Ecc 9:5 For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no further reward, and even the memory of them is forgotten.  

Like I said, I do not want to offend anyone.

Love to you in Christ,
Darren

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