Topic: Preparation for Death. Cremation or Burial? (Read 6380 times)

I don't believe in an afterlife so I don't care what happens to my body. I heard about the production technology of the ashes after cremation of artificial diamonds. I like this idea. Become after the death of a diamond is what I want.

I agree. cremation is more conventional and being dead you won't even know what happens after you're cremated. and your family won't have to pay for where you'll be buried. they can put your ashes in a locket and keep you close wherever they are.

The possibility of them being able to crack your wallet in 100-200 years is far greater than them bringing you back to life. If the computing power keeps growing like it is we'll be able to crack sha256 in a day. They'd clone you, but what about your memories? They'd make someone that would look exactly like you but would be a completely different person and wouldn't know anything about your Bitcoins.

With cremation your DNA will gone with you. With burial your DNA will remain intact. There is small possibility that your nerd descendants might clone you back. Because your having bitcoins.  Who knows the price of bitcoins 100-200 years from now. Placing 100 btc bounty to whomever clone you back would could up the possibility.

In my opinion cremation is the best way to rest in peace, is more cheap than a cemetery and you can make a ring or ornament with your ashes that can being carry by your beloveds beings.

Yes, if you bury a body without a coffin, then there will not be so much harm from it. Although if there were the proceeds of a complex disease, then the body is better to burn.

A lifeless body is very good for the soil. It should be situated at least at a distance of 6 feet down however, and covered with soil - this technique has proven to deliver the best results, but without caskets or even clothes, unless the clothing is specially made to be biodegradable and also made such to hasten the decomposition of the flesh, in other words conducive for bacterial growth.

Also, it astonishes me that people would attach any emotion whatsoever to raw elements (have a look at the periodic table) of the earth at all, as are found when ashes are formed after incineration of a lifeless human body.

Actually, dead is dead they don't know what is happened to their body, they don't feel anything, they don't see anything as in everything to His/Her body was totally dead, meaning it doesn't matter whether cremation or burial. So if you are practical, cremation is a good one to choose than burial.

No it's not new and many cultures have done it before. Hindus do and they can get quite elaborate, like the cremation ceremonies in Indonesia. The Romans also burn their dead to liberate the soul from the body. The ashes are then placed into small nitches which were we got the word columbarium (lit. dove cote).

In general, experts will tell you that cremation is less expensive than burial because it does not involve tying up the limited resource of real estate space for an indefinite period of time. To remain financially viable, cemeteries that house bodies that have been buried must ask their customers to pay a sufficient amount to allow for interest to cover the cost of care for the land in perpetuity. This adds significantly to the overall price tag of memorializing a loved one. To that total, burial also typically requires the purchase of a casket and a grave marker, both of which are optional purchases for a burial – and the minimum cost for these is usually about $1,500 each. Meanwhile, no accessory purchases are required for a cremation. Even cremation urns – which are not required because, in most cases, crematories will return the ashes to a family in a “temporary container” for not additional charge – can be found quite readily for $100 or less. It is important for those considering this question of whether cremation or burial is best to understand this final note about cost: just because cremation expenses are usually less than those for burial does not mean that cremation will always be the less expensive choice. It is possible to spend a great deal of money on a cremation, with the purchase of elaborate urns, columbarium space, a grave plot in which the ashes will be buried, and even a memorial statue or grave stone.

If you do not abuse the right to legally kill a seriously ill person, then this law or law would be very handy, since he solves very many problems of relatives and friends who suffer no less than the sick person himself. And with respect to cremation, I'm against it because I think That the person who died must be passed only to the earth.

I would prefer cremation. You're dead anyway, unless you believe your bones will somehow become a full body again and be resurrected like the ancients believe, there's really no practical use to burial. A columbarium can house urns as much as half of a medium cemetery would accommodate.

Cremation would also allow the option to keep the ashes at home (varies with local regulations). Just in case it happens that your family is too poor to even buy a small niche in a columbarium.

Right. I would not want my body to poison the environment after death and harm my descendants.

Why do you think this is disrespectful? In India always burned the corpses, and the ashes poured into the Ganges. No it is not considered disrespectful. The human body in the decay poisons the land and the graves makes no sense. The memory of the man lives in the minds and not in the monuments.

Wow, that's wonderful! Different people different thoughts and ideology.

Great choice, I rather choose burial than cremation. I see no reason for cremating a someone's body after they're death. It's like a disrespect to a statue of someone

Thats it , it is naturally tradition that a person who is dead to be buried . Cremation is a newly born tradition only because of technology and as years go by .Theres nothing wrong with this to what people before to die wants their body to be buried or cremate.

Nowadays, when we are going to talk about the practicality cremation is the answer for that things. Now if we are going to talk about burial to others of course this one of the best, because at least while in the burial period they their loved ones anyhow and they are much more comfortable in that way and it was already an ancient belief too that we inherited to our ancestors.

I'd like my body to be cremated and my ashes turned into diamond, LOL.

No but seriously, burial is a waste of good land that could have been used for housing, since many cemeteries tend to be near urban areas anyway. Also, this need not end the cemetery business. They can just allow mausoleums to house urns rather than coffins.

They don't seem to like it though. In the cemetery where our family has bought plots, there's a limit to how many urns can be placed in a mausoleum. To be fair to them though, they allow an urn in the plot even if you already have a coffin down there.

If cities don't have restrictions though, I'd rather just have an altar or alcove in the house to display all the urns. Less hassle during ceremonies.


Um, was that zirconia? I thought those were actual diamonds. I know there are hair diamonds for keepsakes so it's probably possible to turn the whole body's ashes into one.

Such a shame we can't be turned to glass. At first I though that was possible but when I checked online I only saw someone incorporating a few pinch of ash into glass bead.

And the remnants of the cremated body and make them cubic Zirconia. I heard that there is such a technology. It seems to me very convenient. No need for cemeteries. All generations can be stored in one vase.