Green funerals

[Cameron]

http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story.php?id=143467&ac=PHnws

Actually not a bad idea. Funeral home operators today are about in the same category as "professional" wrestlers and used car salesmen.

As a child I remember my granpfather's casket in the living room of his home and relatives who sat up all night. There were no funeral homes to my knowledge.

There was also an outcry when preople began to use funeral homes. Sort of like it was a foreign and disgraceful idea.

$10,000 for a funeral is ridiculous. My wife wants to be cremated. I'm not quiet on board for myself, though I know that God can find every particle of His children when the time comes. But all of the commercialism.....I think I just might skip that part.

[Joseph The Carpenter]

I don't think we will need a funeral, at least most of us won't. But if I was going to die I would make my own coffin.

[Cd4u_2]

That's a great idea...

But if someone you love died, you ended up getting the best. I know alot of mothers who lost their children (like cancer) end up getting the best tombstone, caskets, etc. People also judge you as a cold person and that you don't care your loved ones enough because the funeral just seem too "cheap" when you do care and grieve for the person.

[CelticMist]

That's a great idea...

But if someone you love died, you ended up getting the best. I know alot of mothers who lost their children (like cancer) end up getting the best tombstone, caskets, etc. People also judge you as a cold person and that you don't care your loved ones enough because the funeral just seem too "cheap" when you do care and grieve for the person.

Yes, but at the same time.. those selling the product to bury your loved one in... will scam you out of every red cent you will allow them to take.

I will NOT have a funeral. I have my burial plots for my parents and my self. The plots for my parents were at zero cost to me... my grandfather purchased five plots in the early 1940s for 35$. I got my plot last year for $200. I wanted the one right next to my parents... who will be next to my grandparents and uncle.

Here in California a plot goes for $2000 to $15000.00 depending on the "view". Your dead.. you will not care if the sunset is hidden through storm clouds.. you see the sea rushing to shore... etc. Glad my plot and my parents are in the flat country of our home state of Kansas. From every side.. you will feel the breeze of and see the wheat swaying with the wind.

[heybales219]

I wish our laws were not so strict. Don't we HAVE to be embalmed (if not cremated)? When Nate on Six Feet Under was buried, he was buried in a biodegradable body bag. I always though that was a good way to return to the earth from whence we came.

[vhowell]

My whole family is on board for cremation and and memorial service afterward. I hate seeing loved ones in the coffin and how they looked - i am not putting my kids through that.

Just cremate me and spread my ashes up in the mountains somewhere....ashes to ashes, dust to dust.... I won't care after i am gone - to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord - no better place to be!!

PS - my next door neighbor sold new coffins online at a discount and could have them shipped ANYWHERE in the US and the Funeral Home HAD to use them and not thier $5000 ones they tried to sell. 24 hour shipping (I think) anywhere in the US. She made a good living doing that. You don't HAVE to buy from the Funeral Home...

[seashell]

My whole family is on board for cremation and and memorial service afterward. I hate seeing loved ones in the coffin and how they looked - i am not putting my kids through that.

Just cremate me and spread my ashes up in the mountains somewhere....ashes to ashes, dust to dust.... I won't care after i am gone - to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord - no better place to be!!

PS - my next door neighbor sold new coffins online at a discount and could have them shipped ANYWHERE in the US and the Funeral Home HAD to use them and not thier $5000 ones they tried to sell. 24 hour shipping (I think) anywhere in the US. She made a good living doing that. You don't HAVE to buy from the Funeral Home...

I like the idea of creamation as well. The only thing that worries me is that when Jesus comes and raises the dead; I hope he doesn't have a hard time finding all of my pieces. (Stupid worry, but I think about it anyway)

[heybales219]

Was cremation practiced in the Bible? I seriously don't know and I'm not trying to say it's unbiblical, but I personally have never been comfortable with the thought of cremation. Noone in my family has ever been laid to rest that way but many of my friends say that's how they want to go. Personally, I don't think I have to worry about it, but that's neither here nor there.

[CelticMist]

Was cremation practiced in the Bible? I seriously don't know and I'm not trying to say it's unbiblical, but I personally have never been comfortable with the thought of cremation. Noone in my family has ever been laid to rest that way but many of my friends say that's how they want to go. Personally, I don't think I have to worry about it, but that's neither here nor there.
:idunno But, I'm leaning toward cremation myself... my ashes will be buried in the plot in Kansas. I don't want to be "sprinkled" here and there... they will remain in one location and buried. :o

I know one must be embalmed when crossing statelines. Since I live in California, my family in Texas... and we have three plots in Kansas.. in order not to pay the cost of transporting the bodies... my parents and I have talked about just getting cremated so there will be NO extra cost for our loved ones to pay.

My brothers and sisters have not really discussed how they want to be laid to rest... embalmed or cremated.

[PrincessofHeaven]

Celtic, im from the land of OZ how kewl