Christian Burial Practices

[Gary Childress]

Is there anything more disgusting and hideous than what Christian morticians do to dead bodies. Infusing us with toxic chemicals and throwing us into the ground for a prolonged rot over centuries like plastic bottles?

I'd like to be cremated or recycled by the natural food chain.

Thoughts?

[LuckyR]

Is there anything more disgusting and hideous than what Christian morticians do to dead bodies. Infusing us with toxic chemicals and throwing us into the ground for a prolonged rot over centuries like plastic bottles?

I'd like to be cremated or recycled by the natural food chain.

Thoughts?

Uummm... how about practices on living bodies?

[Gary Childress]

Is there anything more disgusting and hideous than what Christian morticians do to dead bodies. Infusing us with toxic chemicals and throwing us into the ground for a prolonged rot over centuries like plastic bottles?

I'd like to be cremated or recycled by the natural food chain.

Thoughts?

Uummm... how about practices on living bodies?

That too.

[Impenitent]

prolonged rot is not caused by "Christian" chemicals...

it is caused by food preservatives

-Imp

[seeds]

Is there anything more disgusting and hideous than what Christian morticians do to dead bodies. Infusing us with toxic chemicals and throwing us into the ground for a prolonged rot over centuries like plastic bottles?

I'd like to be cremated or recycled by the natural food chain.

Or better yet...






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[Impenitent]

making castles in the sand...

practices digging anyway...

-Imp

[accelafine]

I've always found the practice of keeping the ashes bizarre. It must be all mixed in with the coffin and clothes or do they take it out of the coffin and use it for the next person after stripping the body?
I've never had any interest in having a box of ashes on a shelf, complete with bone fragments.
My mother got my father's ashes because she felt she had to then didn't know what to do with them. I think they eventually went in the rubbish.

[Gary Childress]

Is there anything more disgusting and hideous than what Christian morticians do to dead bodies. Infusing us with toxic chemicals and throwing us into the ground for a prolonged rot over centuries like plastic bottles?

I'd like to be cremated or recycled by the natural food chain.

Or better yet...






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Converting corpses into food crosses a delicate line IMO. Scattering my ashes in the ocean or a field seems more appropriate. Of course, if we don't keep enough of our legs closed enough of the time and keep doubling the Earth's population every decade, then that might change by necessity.

[accelafine]

Is there anything more disgusting and hideous than what Christian morticians do to dead bodies. Infusing us with toxic chemicals and throwing us into the ground for a prolonged rot over centuries like plastic bottles?

I'd like to be cremated or recycled by the natural food chain.

Or better yet...






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Converting corpses into food crosses a delicate line IMO. Scattering my ashes in the ocean or a field seems more appropriate. Of course, if we don't keep enough of our legs closed enough of the time and keep doubling the Earth's population every decade, then that might change by necessity.

I'm sure men can f*** with their legs closed.

[Gary Childress]

Or better yet...






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Converting corpses into food crosses a delicate line IMO. Scattering my ashes in the ocean or a field seems more appropriate. Of course, if we don't keep enough of our legs closed enough of the time and keep doubling the Earth's population every decade, then that might change by necessity.

I'm sure men can f*** with their legs closed.

My bad. In that case, I'll refer to keeping our pants on.

[Impenitent]

https://www.history.com/news/miracle-an ... r-survival

-Imp

[seeds]

Is there anything more disgusting and hideous than what Christian morticians do to dead bodies. Infusing us with toxic chemicals and throwing us into the ground for a prolonged rot over centuries like plastic bottles?

I'd like to be cremated or recycled by the natural food chain.

Or better yet...






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Converting corpses into food crosses a delicate line IMO.

Hey, you're the one who said you wanted to be "recycled."

Why let the worms and bugs get all the nutrients?

Obviously, I'm just being silly. I mean, what if the deceased had a "gammy leg" like in this Monty Python sketch? - https://youtu.be/deoNAOfkXxc

Anyway, just out of curiosity I did a Google search for the answer, and here's the first thing that popped up...

"...From a Christian perspective, the primary purpose of human embalming is to allow for a period of visitation and mourning by preserving the body for viewing, enabling family and friends to say goodbye before burial, while respecting the belief in the resurrection of the body at the end of time..."

In other words, you don't want to go to the funeral of a friend or a loved one and be confronted by some horrifying stench from the rotting corpse, do you?
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[Gary Childress]

Or better yet...






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Converting corpses into food crosses a delicate line IMO.

Hey, you're the one who said you wanted to be "recycled."

Why let the worms and bugs get all the nutrients?

Obviously, I'm just being silly. I mean, what if the deceased had a "gammy leg" like in this Monty Python sketch? - https://youtu.be/deoNAOfkXxc

Anyway, just out of curiosity I did a Google search for the answer, and here's the first thing that popped up...

"...From a Christian perspective, the primary purpose of human embalming is to allow for a period of visitation and mourning by preserving the body for viewing, enabling family and friends to say goodbye before burial, while respecting the belief in the resurrection of the body at the end of time..."

In other words, you don't want to go to the funeral of a friend or a loved one and be confronted by some horrifying stench from the rotting corpse, do you?
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Who wants to see their loved one weeks after their death in a pickled state? We lose our loved ones at the time of death. That's reality. Trying to preserve them with what amounts to the services of a taxidermist isn't my idea of how I would want my body treated after death. And I'd rather go into the food chain as something other creatures will recycle into agriculture. Being fed directly to other humans seems kind of spiritually sickening to me.

[accelafine]

Converting corpses into food crosses a delicate line IMO.

Hey, you're the one who said you wanted to be "recycled."

Why let the worms and bugs get all the nutrients?

Obviously, I'm just being silly. I mean, what if the deceased had a "gammy leg" like in this Monty Python sketch? - https://youtu.be/deoNAOfkXxc

Anyway, just out of curiosity I did a Google search for the answer, and here's the first thing that popped up...

"...From a Christian perspective, the primary purpose of human embalming is to allow for a period of visitation and mourning by preserving the body for viewing, enabling family and friends to say goodbye before burial, while respecting the belief in the resurrection of the body at the end of time..."

In other words, you don't want to go to the funeral of a friend or a loved one and be confronted by some horrifying stench from the rotting corpse, do you?
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Who wants to see their loved one weeks after their death in a pickled state? We lose our loved ones at the time of death. That's reality. Trying to preserve them with what amounts to the services of a taxidermist isn't my idea of how I would want my body treated after death. And I'd rather go into the food chain as something other creatures will recycle into agriculture. Being fed directly to other humans seems kind of spiritually sickening to me.

Not to mention a really, really bad idea. Humans aren't supposed to eat other humans. It causes all kinds of horrible diseases including insanity. Safer to eat raw chicken and raw pork.

[seeds]

Being fed directly to other humans seems kind of spiritually sickening to me.

Good grief! What is it about...

Obviously, I'm just being silly. I mean, what if the deceased had a "gammy leg" like in this Monty Python sketch? - https://youtu.be/deoNAOfkXxc

...that you guys don't understand?

Come on now, "Soylent Green" and a hilarious "gammy leg" sketch, and you guys are taking it seriously?

Sheesh! Lighten up.
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