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That would be good if caskets were designed to decay but they typically aren't and likely 100 years later what is in the box may be inaccessible to anything outside of it. Decaying stuff often produces methane another one on the hit list for environmentalists (get rid of cows to solve globals warming).Agreed. But what is more natural and beneficial to the rest of God's creation of which we are stewards, worm food or vapour and more CO2? Compost and calcium or just calcium.
That is the fault of the consumer who has fallen for the notion of fancy this and embalmed that, none of which are necessary. A cardboard box or canvas bag, or just a simple wooden box are a simple and cost effective alternative to the capped teeth mentality of the funeral industry. Respect is a matter of the heart, not the pocket book.
Yeah but often people won't accept a cheap box to bury people in they end up buying an expensive casket instead. When I die a cardboard box or a trash bag is fine with me and if people feel guilty about being cheap just give the savings to charity instead.
I think in some deaths cremation may be either recommended in the case of death of those with infectious diseases. I also think that some gruesome deaths where an open casket in a funeral is not an option preserving the body is waste of effort even. My father was ravaged by cancer when he died he looked very bad and we had a closed casket funeral for him and his wish was to be cremated. A huge advantage of cremation is you don't need to have a graveside service and/or promptly inter the body. We buried the urn his ashes were in about 4-5 months later as it was that long before we could get everyone together to drive to where he was finally buried.
I like the idea of burying the ashes more then spreading them (& definitely more than housing them) when it comes to cremation. Is that still pretty expensive?
It depends on how you do that. My dad's ashes were buried in a public cemetery and a headstone made for it. I've not been to see where his ashes were buried but all we did was dig a hole about 3 feet deep and put the urn in there and bury it. The problem however is if you go to a cemetery that you have to buy a place it may likely be that there is only casket sized plots of land there and they may require that they dig the hole and after you toss the ceremonial dirt on top they fill the hole itself. I guess you could save money if you can buy a smaller plot or get a headstone in some sort of wall. I think in a movie I saw almost like small lockers where people put the urns of those cremated in them and it had some sort of plaque on the locker like a headstone. That could be cheaper but then it may not lend as much privacy as a piece of land like a burial plot where you can all stand around.
You may not "like" it when you are thinking about it when nobody has died but trust me the chaos of an unexpected unprepared for death of a loved one can make your life a huge mess in so many ways and not having to deal with the extra problems of casket type burial may "help" you cope with it all. Like I said in the last post to some people they sort of compartmentalize the loss of a loved one in totality with the burial ceremony and some not quite ready to grieve a cremation gives them a little more time to "adjust".
I did a quick (not in depth) search on the topic and as far as I can see there is no laws mandating cremation but rather recommendations for it in some cases. One thing that I just thought of is if you die in another country it may be a lot cheaper to be cremated and your ashes shipped home than have a casket sent home on a plane.
