Whost else thinks cremation should be banned?

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People could have equally disgusted feelings about a lot of funeral rites. The fact is that it's a body without any mental presence, a corpse. So for the body concerned cremation is not as horrifying as it looks. And when you understand that and since it's the one-time user of that body who chose that method then just thinking that it's horrifying isn't a good enough excuse to ban it.
That you have constant problems with the subject of cremation is your psychological problem, not anyone else's cultural problem.

I wouldn't mind being cremated as long as I knew my ash would be used in fertilizing potatoes, or if we have gotten far enough technology wise let's just put my body in stasis and let some future doctor deal with me.

I'd like to be fired

from a cannon

into the sun

Not me. I quite like the idea of being burnt.

Mm... roasty.

NO. I want to be cremated when I die. I don't want my body to be under ground.

I want my body to be frozen in carbonate.

But I guess being bronzed would work too.

Not at all. It's sanitary, effective, and a much more efficient used of land than it would be to park hundreds of rotting, formaldehyde-filled bodies in a row six feet under.


So ... what this really has to do with you trying to stop a good, common practice because you are afraid that some Freddy Kruger wannabe might want to get you?

I'm donating my body to science. They always need new cadavers to experiment on or learn from. I don't see the point of burning it or burying it if it can still be useful.

Why, do you believe God, the Almighty, maker of Heaven and Earth and all things seen and unseen is incapable of resurrecting peeps for the Last Trump if He hasn't got a body to work with?

The idea of being put in the ground, in a casket and then inside a vault bothers me. I think when you die your body should go back to the earth. I am even OK with being donated to science. I don't understand the point in embalming either. I don't want to be a slimy preserved dead person for thousands of years. YUCK!

Nope, but I have seen it in real life and I didn't find it scary. I looked through the wee window in the door of the cremator.

I find crematoria very peaceful places.

I don't think it matters where you stay. If you offer your body and it's accepted, then presumably you'd leave your instructions with your lawyer, tell your next of kin, and then when the time comes the undertakers will take you to the uni or teaching hospital instead of the funeral service.

My parents were at a memorial service recently for someone who'd donated their body to Glasgow, I think it was.

I worry about lots of things, but burial/cremation are likely to happen to me one or two days after all those things are done.
So to answer your question, who cares?

When I die, I want...
1) To donate my organs to those who need them
2) Get the rest of my body cremated so nobody has to deal with a rotting corpse
& 3) Have my ashes buried with the rest of my deceased family and act as fertilizer for the grass in the cemetery

Funerals aren't for the dead person; they're for the family. So, the answer to that is--"Your family will care." Or your friends, or whoever you happen to leave behind. Even if you're the last to go, somebody's still got to bury the body.

In the case of people donating their organs or doing body donation, the people who get the body (or pieces of it) will care.

I just hope I don't die before my mom, because she would probably freak out at the thought of me wanting to donate my body and veto it (besides, you know, freaking out in general). She attaches way too much importance to it; but it's understandable--it's a very sentimental thing, even if the body no longer contains the information that made the person who they are.

I would much rather be buried The thought of being incinarated has always scared me.