Cremation of humans

[nohorn]

If anyone has plans/intentions to have cremation to dispose of their/others remains, what are the thoughts and considerations. Is it most often the cost involved. I realize there are cultural/religious considerations. I just need to examine pros and cons.

[Panic Button]

I want to be cremated, because I don't want the worms to get my eyeballs.

[Rollo]

I don't want anybody digging up my body/skeleton in a few hundred years and putting it on display somewhere.

I think it is wrong to do it to remains, but it is all too common.

[tamborine]

cremation here.....dont want to wake up 6f down & suffocate to death.

Ooooh.....the last & final roasting ;)

[rockyracoon]

I'm being cremated too, couldn't bear the thought that my kids would feel they had to make a pilgrimage to my grave on Bdays, Xmas's etc. As for my ashes, I wanna be soaked in a big bottle of Jack Daniels.

[coccinelle]

I too want to be cremated because the very thought of actually waking up once buried gives me nightmares. I'm claustophobic by the way so just the thought of me lying in a closed box is horrendous.
Also I think it's very sad to see a neglected grave which openly shows that nobody cares to tidy it up and as this would be my case as I live so far from family, another reason I go for cremation.
My husband whose french catholic will be buried. Here catholics don't think cremation is right. Saying this, had sea burials been legal he'd have opted for that instead.

[Panic Button]

Sea burial? No thanks.

The fish would strip your skeleton clean.

[saxy_jag]

Cremation, please, for the reasons Panic Button and Coccinelle gave.

Also, I want my body to go back to the earth, and it'll decompose more quickly as ash than as a whole body.

And it'll be a bit warmer too.

[JeniPeni]

My husband is a funeral director - he says that just now cremation is cheaper than burial; but the price of cremation is rising sharply due to crematoriums having to install environmentally friendly mercury abaitment filters. Also 2 doctors charge �147 between the both of them to sign a paper to allow cremation. 95% of funeral directors are cremated and not buried!

[madmaggot]

I couldn't care less what happens to my body when I'm dead; put it in the refuse cart for all it matters. Most prevous posters don't seem to have grasped the fact that when you are dead you won't know!

[nohorn]

Oh this is nohorn, those are all interesting thoughts especially about funderal directors. Oh the reason the words are run together in my questions is that I used slashes when I orginally type the question out but they don't show when appearing to the reader on answer bank. I keep forgetting that.

[craft1948]

I told my first husband that I'd have him buried at sea.....he can't swim......

[saxy_jag]

I know I won't be there, madmaggot, but I hope it would be a comfort to my family that they'd arranged the funeral in line with my own beliefs. You know, "it's what she would have wanted."

[Lil O'lady]

Having been to a fair few of both, I'd say the ceremonies for cremation are less upsetting than watching a burial, and also considerably more affordable. Perhaps that's just a me thing. On a personal level I am with Nohorn ie when you're dead it don't matter what's done; but I wouldn't want my children to be unduly upset by rigmaroles they thought I might have liked.
If I was planning to make it as untraumatic as possible for the living, I'd opt to be cremated.
Having said that, the energy implications of cremation do bother me, and it would be interesting to think a woodland burial would be feasible, but the likelihood of this being practical where I live is remote at present. Maybe when I die, hopefully in a hundred years or so (ha ha) then this will be normal and affordable.

[tamborine]

craft, lol......is he dead?

[carlton23]

I intend to live forever....so far...so good.