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06 Jun 2024, 4:09 pm

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06 Jun 2024, 4:44 pm

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I visited Great Britain’s largest graveyard today ‘Brookwood Cemetery’
Ooh interesting, and once with its own corpse delivery railway.

Brookwood, along with Highgate cemetery is on my photography list.
I looked around Brompton cemetery a few years ago and that was interesting.


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06 Jun 2024, 4:50 pm

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I want to be cremated when I go so won't have a grave.
I felt the same, but now I want a wicker coffin woodland burial instead.
The funerals I've been to have all been cremations - they just seem to be a rubbish disposal conveyor belt service (which I suppose they are).
I like the idea of becoming tree food instead of ashes sitting in a pot somewhere or chucked away.


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06 Jun 2024, 4:51 pm

Cornflake wrote:
Rossall wrote:
I want to be cremated when I go so won't have a grave.
I felt the same, but now I want a wicker coffin woodland burial instead.
The funerals I've been to have all been cremations - they just seem to be a rubbish disposal conveyor belt service (which I suppose they are).
I like the idea of becoming tree food instead of ashes sitting in a pot somewhere or chucked away.


I prefer the idea of burial versus cremation, too, CF.



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06 Jun 2024, 5:04 pm

I feel obligated to go in the ground. I've been eating the bodies of things my whole life so it seems only right that my body should feed something else when I'm done with it. Least I can do.


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06 Jun 2024, 5:05 pm

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I feel obligated to go in the ground. I've been eating the bodies of things my whole life so it seems only right that my body should feed something else when I'm done with it. Least I can do.


That is a reasonable philosophical sentiment, DHB.



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06 Jun 2024, 5:13 pm

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I prefer the idea of burial versus cremation, too, CF.
It seems nicer somehow, the idea of an eternal sleep under some friendly trees (large beech trees, ideally).


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06 Jun 2024, 5:19 pm

Cornflake wrote:
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I prefer the idea of burial versus cremation, too, CF.
It seems nicer somehow, the idea of an eternal sleep under some friendly trees (large beech trees, ideally).


Totally! It seems friendlier than being burnt to ashes.



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06 Jun 2024, 5:36 pm

I’ll go with cremation because it’s cheaper. It’s also what people in my family generally choose.

Sometimes folks have their ashes scattered somewhere meaningful. I don’t really care that much about what my family decides to do because it’s not like I’ll be around for it. It’s more about whatever’s meaningful and comforting to them. I just wouldn’t want them to spend a lot of money or stress on any of it.



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06 Jun 2024, 6:16 pm

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I’ll go with cremation because it’s cheaper. It’s also what people in my family generally choose.

Sometimes folks have their ashes scattered somewhere meaningful. I don’t really care that much about what my family decides to do because it’s not like I’ll be around for it. It’s more about whatever’s meaningful and comforting to them. I just wouldn’t want them to spend a lot of money or stress on any of it.



The only downside to getting cremated is that it might be painful



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06 Jun 2024, 6:17 pm

Jamesy wrote:
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I’ll go with cremation because it’s cheaper. It’s also what people in my family generally choose.

Sometimes folks have their ashes scattered somewhere meaningful. I don’t really care that much about what my family decides to do because it’s not like I’ll be around for it. It’s more about whatever’s meaningful and comforting to them. I just wouldn’t want them to spend a lot of money or stress on any of it.



The only downside to getting cremated is that it might be painful


People are cremated after they are already dead. You don't feel pain physically when you are dead, so far as current scientific knowledge understands, lol.



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06 Jun 2024, 6:20 pm

blitzkrieg wrote:
Jamesy wrote:
TwilightPrincess wrote:
I’ll go with cremation because it’s cheaper. It’s also what people in my family generally choose.

Sometimes folks have their ashes scattered somewhere meaningful. I don’t really care that much about what my family decides to do because it’s not like I’ll be around for it. It’s more about whatever’s meaningful and comforting to them. I just wouldn’t want them to spend a lot of money or stress on any of it.



The only downside to getting cremated is that it might be painful


People are cremated after they are already dead. You don't feel pain physically when you are dead, so far as current scientific knowledge understands, lol.



Yeah true


So when you die do you think you will be reborn as something else or not? I mean technically if you are born/live once you can live AGAIN



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06 Jun 2024, 6:27 pm

I’ve not seen any evidence to support that, so I’d say probably not.



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06 Jun 2024, 6:30 pm

Nobody knows what happens after a person dies. It might not be a universal rule for each person dying, different things may happen to different people when they die, who have lived in our reality, for all anyone knows.

Or nothing might happen at all, as many people believe - i.e, you die/you cease to exist, just like before you were born you wouldn't have any memories from before then.



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06 Jun 2024, 6:30 pm

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I’ve not seen any evidence to support that, so I’d say probably not.



Why is that you only live once though? It does not make any sense



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06 Jun 2024, 6:34 pm

Jamesy wrote:
TwilightPrincess wrote:
I’ve not seen any evidence to support that, so I’d say probably not.



Why is that you only live once though? It does not make any sense

I think it makes more sense than being reborn as something/someone else or afterlife myths because we don’t have any evidence to support those beliefs.

Thoughts originate in the brain. The brain, like the rest of our body, decomposes after we die.