/christian/ - Christian Discussion and Fellowship

Burial is far more personal and has been the dominant tradition in Europe for a reason.

Most of the people I've talked to about this are against burial for financial or social reasons. Cremation being a cheeper alternative does not justify it, and frankly once you get your head out of the cremation mindset it really feels like cremation is a more disrespectful method of sending off the body God blessed you with throughout your whole life. That being said Christian communities should try to get together more high quality funerary societies so that burial is cheaper, especially for the poor. As far as social effects, like people not wanting their friends and family to come and see their body in a church or their casket put in the ground, I don't think these thoughts stand up to a Christian mindset of remembering our brothers in their death and praying for them

When I was a nihilst I wanted to be cremated so that no memory of me remains.

Today I just dont care about any of this tbh.

>>721968

Which is?

>>721973

>Cremation being a cheeper alternative does not justify it

Seems to be a good justification.

>cremation is a more disrespectful method of sending off the body

Why would you care for a soulless husk of meat? God is more interested in yoru soul even if you're alive.

>Christian communities should try to get together more high quality funerary societies so that burial is cheaper

Sounds more like death veneration.

Honestly didn't read the rest since I think your full of hogwash.

>>722006

Now this anon seems to have sense.

>>722022

The body is very important in Christianity. You are not a soul inhabiting a body, that's Platonism/Hinduism. You are a body and a soul, and there will be a bodily resurrection one day.

when i'm done stick me in the ground and put a cross on me

after i start doing all those miracles in heaven they're gonna want to bury me up and find my beautiful body!

(one can hope haha)

but no really into the ground i go!

>>721965

My Catholic mother says no. My Methodist father says it's fine. I haven't figured it out just yet. Hopefully I won't die before I sort it out.

>>722025

>a bodily resurrection

I'm suddenly picturing a bunch of living piles of ash and bone hanging around Heaven.

>>722036

>I'm suddenly picturing a bunch of living piles of ash and bone hanging around Heaven.

lol, well I don't think you won't have a body if you have been cremated, but I'm just pointing out that the body is something sacred and should be treated as such. I don't know whether cremation is wrong or not, but I lean towards burial being more in line with Christianity.

>>722025

And you honestly think God needs your carcass taking space in an already crowded world?

>>722036

The Catholic church said cremation is fine back in 1963. You can be cremated, but you can't have your ashes scattered or divided up or anything like that.

>>722038

>to heretics or pagans…

Dude … you're talkin' about my dad.

>>722040

Huh. Just looked that up and you're right.

>>722044

hate to break it to you, your dad is a heretic. it's terrible our sisters get married to heretics and produce confused children like you. why parents allow this is beyond me. very sad.

>>722046

I'm not confused and I'm not a child. Methodists aren't heretics.

>>722049

He's pulling your leg.

OP here, sorry I haven't been posting and responding, I appreciate the replies though.

>the greater affordability of cremation does not justify picking it over burial

>t. coffin worshiper

I never understood the appeal of an ornate coffin and funeral. Seems like a huge waste of money, plus the expensive woods and embalming fluids are destructive to the earth.

The general idea of having your body basically turned into a mannequin and displayed for some time (wake, viewing(s), then funeral) seems distasteful as well. Wouldn't the most "virtuous poverty" thing be to just reverently place the body in the ground and be done with it?

>>722135

>expensive woods and embalming fluids are destructive to the earth.

>destructive to the earth

That's not the real problem.

>>722137

It's not the major one but wouldn't you say that unnecessary pollution and waste of the earth is something that should be avoided?

>>722139

What about the combustion at the crematory?

>>722141

That's bad too- I'm saying that wrapping them in a shroud or simple box and putting them in the ground is the best way to go.

>>722147

Oddly enough, that's what Muslims do. I like that.

>>722147

Hey, same opinion. The catacomb and ossuary burial seems like a good idea too.

>>722156

Sadly, catacombs fell out of style once people discovered microbiology.

>>722182

So make hermetically sealed catacombs.

>>722039

God doesn't "need" anything in the first place.

Burial is a default choice and it shows respect to the concept of ressurection. Like bones of Joseph being carried to Canaan, that shows that bodies should also be respected. Also, I like skeletons so I hope that my bones will be kept in a comfy ossuary

Accidental sage

Burial is Western

Cremation is for jews :^)

>>722547

To clarify for the autists:

West = Christian

Jew = Rev 2:9, 3:9

>>722547

Jews don't cremate. It's against Jewish law.

>>722404

lol

And maybe I like my ashes on a shelf over the fireplace where nobody can screw with them Hamlet style.