The reason why the deceased are buried facing east. (page 2)

Schizm

According to tradition, many older cemeteries have individuals buried facing East, which generally means that the inscriptions on the headstones also face East. http://genealogy.about.com/od/cemetery_records/a/pictures.htm

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Schizm

Schizm,
Nasty??!! My comments were quite polite.

You're not only a nasty person, you lie a lot. Now, politely stop hijacking my thread.

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Schizm

"The dead here are always buried with their head to the west, facing east like it says in the Bible, ready for the rising sun and the day of judgement. Undertakers know their directions and never ask and I learned quick. On Judgement Day the graves will give us up and provide us with a new body, the way I understand it. http://www.aliciapatterson.org/APF001973/Baskin/Baskin02/Baskin02.html

Schizm

"He also noted that Christian burials are usually oriented east to west, with the head facing the east." http://www.apva.org/apva/burial.pdf - Cached

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Schizm

Isaac's body was then taken to St. Herman of Alaska Monastery, in Platina, CA (where Fr. Seraphim Rose is buried), and Fr. Gerasim (abbott of that monastery) served a graveside Pannikhida in which more prayers are sung. The same men who washed Isaac's body, are the ones who had driven up beforehand to dig the grave, and the same ones who lowered him into the earth and covered him up. . .feet once again facing east. . .waiting for the resurrection from the dead. http://www.thestrawmen.com/blogger/2004/12/isaac-died-and-was-buried.html

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Schizm

On Monday, 22 Feb 99 at 4 PM, Annette Hinshaw died in the St Francis Hospital in Tulsa of cancer. She had been fighting it 4 years. Her indomitable courage stood even a half hour before she slipped into the final coma.

Her wish was to be buried facing east, in the simplest coffin possible.... http://www.witchvox.com/passages/annettehinshaw.html

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czarofmischief

I think it might be a folk myth - the idea that they could see the sun rising on Judgement Day. At least, that was the reference I got in a book of historical fiction about Texas settlers.

CZAR

new light

Although I firmly believe in the resurrection and the return of Jesus I don't subscribe to the idea that he'll come from the east when he returns.

Yeah, those other people are so gullible.

Justin

"For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be." - Matt. 24:27

Brummie

Schizm, sticking with the original post, it was very interesting to read thx

Brummie

The reason why the deceased are buried facing east.

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