Has your idea of how you want to be disposed of changed? (page 2)

karvel

i'd like to be burnt. burnt like a witch.

PEC

JG, pagan practices? Now you are sounding like a dub. There are NO pagan practices, they were all adopted by Christians and are now Christian practices.

Burn me and flush the ashes

Philip

Mysterious

I don't really care what happens to my remains. My mark is those whose lives I've touched not where my rotting corpse goes.

PEC, Im not speaking from a JW perspective but a baptist perspective and an old one at that. My people in Kentucky are "burying" people, we dont believe in cremation.

What I was trying to say is that I find it ironic that JW's will ban christmas or birthdays because of pagan origins, yet they dont condemn cremation which has its roots in tribal religions and probably hinduism.

All references in the bible (with the exception of one) point to a burial and not a resurrection. God even told Abraham to go and "bury" his wife, not burn her!

The JW religion will ban things under the premise of being pagan, but overlook many other pagan things too.

That was all I was trying to say.

nvrgnbk

I respectfully ask you J-G, what does it matter.

The life you await is heavenly, no?

You will no longer have need of your body, according to your hope, correct?

Junction-Guy

Well as a previous poster mentioned it preserves history and it allows someone to go and visit their families grave to reflect on their life.

I dont believe it will in anyway affect someones salvation, nor prevent God from resurrecting.

But my point was that the JW religion will harp on something innocent like a birthday celebration or windchimes, yet completely ignore the bible when it come to the burying of the dead.

I may be wrong, but surely somewhere in the 600+ laws of the old testament there was rules prescribed for the burying of the dead. The WT Society will hypocritically pull one law out of the old testament (blood) and then make a whole decree about it, to the detriment of many people, yet comletely ignore the other 600+laws.

nvrgnbk

Well as a previous poster mentioned it preserves history and it allows someone to go and visit their families grave to reflect on their life.

Both of my maternal grandparents were cremated and buried in a cemetery.

ninja

buried above my mother in law with her lips kissing my ass....preferably with her still alive

Junction-Guy

There's nothing wrong with their decision to cremate.

2 of my JW grandma's were cremated, and I know for certain one of them was repulsed by the idea, yet the still went ahead and done that.

Whether in Ohio,Kentucky, or Tennessee the majority of the people bury the dead, it's only within the JW org do we find these numbers change.

In Kentucky people go and tend their relatives graves at least once a year, it's a time honored tradition there.

We even have what they call "Memorial Services" there, which is basically once a year they will have a special day of preaching at a cemetery and a dinner on the grounds.

In Kentucky people just seem to have more respect for the deceased.

To sum it up, I dont care what other people do, that is their decision, but I would prefer to be buried, even if it is a simple pine box. This is part of my culture and my beliefs.

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