Cremation vs. Burial

[Knothead]

Originally posted by Epidemic
I still have not made a firm decision as to what happens to my soul if any yet. I personally believe when the last synaps fires you are gone for the count. No fear, no happiness, no saddness,

NOTHING!

Heh, Epi, you're gonna be real surprised the first time you squirt out of that body...

Hope it doesn't require actual body death to make it happen. It's something everyone (with the capability to understand "what-just-happened") should experience!

[draboo]

Originally posted by Knothead

Heh, Epi, you're gonna be real surprised the first time you squirt out of that body...

??? you mean it can happen MORE THAN ONCE??

[Knothead]

Originally posted by draboo


??? you mean it can happen MORE THAN ONCE??

Oh, yeah! It's happened to me twice...once, due to some terrible pain (you can actually DIE from pain, ya know! ) and another time, in a meditation exercise, and totally accidental...

Of the two, I much preferred the 2nd one...

But the point is, yeah, it doesn't require actual body death. There is a whole mess of people who talk about this as a result of being operated on by "Doktors" and who report the vision of "being on the ceiling, and then looking down"....

That's what it's like. Then you see a body, maybe writhing on the floor, maybe perfectly calm...(those are my two experiences) and then you sort of recognize that body (yep, it's yours)...

And that's when you get sucked right back into it.

[Pexster]

My brother told me about that happening to him -- he was outside his bedroom window in a tree, looking back through the window at himself down on the bed. I think it was due to good blotter!

Oh -- the thread -- right! I guess whatever makes those left behind happy.

[Martoch]

I agree with GZ about the open casket funerals...seeing your loved one's body lying there lifeless is not my idea of "remembering the good times". I've never witnessed a cremation, so I don't really have an opinion on that one. As for me, do whatever you want...I won't know anyway.

Knot, YGPM.

[jokostel]

frozen

[Knothead]

Originally posted by Martoch
I've never witnessed a cremation, so I don't really have an opinion on that one.

Well actually, my friend, you don't witness a cremation (thankfully!)

I can well understand the confusion, though...this culture has a weird fascination with death. As though our spiritual needs (at the loss of a loved one) will be met by an orchestrated (and very fake and expensive) show...(i.e., funeral)

Here's the deal: "That's All, Folks!"

And you get a box of ashes, and you handle 'em your own way.

I don't mean to seem callow, I just honestly do not understand any other way of dealing with it.

[John Prophet]

"I just do not see it logically being likely"


youre exactly right.....going by LOGIC there is no way possible.

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I sort of hate all the fakeness and too-late emotionalism and psuedo drama at funerals.

You get family members who havent even SEEN nor spoken to each other in years standing around crying,lol

When my grandfather died last year....my mom and I were in court against some other member(s) of the family...ugly situation which some of you may remember reading about.....so at the viewing of his body...there was all that EXTRA drama, lol. My friend was like 'dude, the tension in here is so thick that I could cut the air with a knife'


Before that my great grandmother had died....and while my mom and I were at the funeral like an hour away..the idiot family member we were in and out of court with so much filed a claim that we had trespassed by using his driveway, lol....we werent even IN TOWN and he knew it because of the funeral......I sort of got "toughened up" (well, more toughened up, lol) by all the friction and drama. Got me good and fired up ready for court appearances!

[Dazbo666]

I'll go with GZ, about cremation ceremonies being more personal than funerals...
I've been to both within the past year or so, and I'd much rather remember my loved ones the way they were when they were alive.

Visiting my grandad at the funeral home was very traumatic, because seeing him there spoiled my last memories of him

[Kruzin]

Cremation doesn't neccesarily mean no open casket cerimony or burial.
My step dad passed a few years ago, and there was an open-casket funeral, after which he was cremated, then his ashes where burried in a small plot at the local military cemetary.

Cremation is cheaper, and financially easier on those you leave behind to take care of things. So shove me in the oven when I'm done...