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Burial and Cremation

Cremation and burial are both ways of dealing with a deceased body. Traditionally, these events are linked to certain traditions and rites, such as a funeral.

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Is cremation accepted in top three religions?

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Cremation is accepted in some sects of Buddhism and Hinduism. In Christianity, the acceptance of cremation varies among denominations. Islam generally does not permit cremation and considers burial the preferred method of disposal for bodies.

Can humans be cloned if they were cremated?

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I'm pretty sure, yes. Because for cloning, you basically only need DNA. Anything they touched, a piece of old hair. Practically anything

Is Christianity against cremation?

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I have never heard of this sentiment, and I am fairly sure that there is no mention of cremation being negative in The Bible.

How do you buried a person that committed suicide?

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Yes, of course he or she can be buried in any grave site at any cemetery. They can be cremated too. All the old myths, superstitions and false religious beliefs to not apply. God views all people with love and understands when people cannot cope and end their lives. Don't believe anyone who tells you otherwise. There are no scriptures that say anything bad about people who commit suicide. Even one of the Kings of Israel did when he suffered from mental anguish and he was buried with honors (This record is in the Old Testament under the record of King Saul.) I have a Masters of Divinity so I have researched this matter. We as people need to love and accept others who end their lives when they no longer can cope.

When and Who started cremation of human bodies in America?

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Henry Laurens became the first person to be formally cremated in the U.S. in 1792. The statesman from Charleston, South Carolina had left instructions to that effect in his will.

What is it called when someone turns a dead body into ashes?

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its called being cremated.

or cremation.

Is it wrong to exhume a deceased loved one for cremation?

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My mother, expressed her desire to be cremated,,,,,,,,and Father was against it. She was buried in a regular family plot. Now that he has passed on, I truly wonder if I should have that done for her?

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There are numerous considerations here, ranging from the Bio-ecological to the financial, as well as the spiritual aspect. (if that is an important element of your composite).

Burial practices vary from country-to-country and even by region or province. Countries such as the United Kingdom still predominately adhere to customs of perhaps a gentler time. Coffins are extremely simple - constructed of particle board with a veneer and simple faux furniture or hardware. (handles, etc.). And embalming is almost unheard of.

Burial plots are often dug deep enough to accommodate up to six (and occasionally eight) coffins. And ultimately, the actual burial plot is, in fact, a leasehold. (Long-term lease). Eventually, the plot will most likely be renewed.

In countries such as the US, many complain that they've become victimised by a cunning funeral industry that uses highly emotive marketing tactics which intricately interweave religious hyperbole, palpable fear, and naïveté in promoting a marketing lifestyle concept, rather than the realities of a death and funeral.

The reason this is shared here is that there may be complex and costly steps you must take to achieve your goal. For many, the costs alone could be so prohibitive that alternative considerations should prevail.

For your mother; did you pay for an extravagant funeral that included a steel-gauge coffin or casket? We're you compelled to pay for a vault as well as a perpetual-care contract for the maintenance of the grave? And did you pay for a memorialisation in the form of masonry?

If so, those costs were most likely extremely high. Should you decide to have your mother's remains exhumed, the application fees, solicitor/attorney costs, court costs, etc., may very well run as high as the original cost of the funeral. Add to that the costs for the reopening of the grave, displacement fees, (should there be anyone else buried above your mother), and removal of any masonry.

Then there are the Bio/Eco considerations: In addition to your court order you would require the services of the local health department, police services, (usually a minimum of four officers), certificate costs for disposal of a substantial non-organic Bio-hazard (the coffin), a Bio-hazard transport vehicle to transport human remains to the crematory. Then there will be the crematory fees, including any environmental fees or taxes.

The Bio issues are dependent upon a number of unknown variables: the period of time since your mother was interred and to what degree (if any) was her embalming. It is often surprising to the uninitiated, but embalming does not necessarily ensure preservation. In most instances the process merely serves in delaying for a few days God's mandate.

From a spiritual perspective; perhaps you would consider having your father's ashes interred in the same grave as your mother? This may serve as an element of comfort for you, realising that their earthly remains are together.

You may find further comfort in the thought that your parent's earthly bodies are mere shells and that all the warm, loving memories you have of them remain where they should be - within your heart. And perhaps the added thought that perhaps your mother would be proud of you for having such a nurturing concern over something that is, so to speak, long done and 'dusted.'

What is a crematorium?

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A crematorium is the same thing as a crematory. Here, any corpses are cremated (turned to ashes). There were many of these during Holocaust, because of all the death camps.

Will a body decompose in and air tight burial vault?

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It depends, but there is a high probabilty that it will decompose because of the presence of anaerobic microorganisms (bacteria which thrive under the absence of air / oxygene) and of mould. In the US, many metal caskets and vaults are hermetically sealed (air and water tight).

What are the elements of manobo burial jar?

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a monobo burial jar is a jar of manobo and it is where dead people is alive

Will disability social security pay for cremation?

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A one-time payment of $255 is payable to the surviving spouse if he or she was living with the beneficiary at the time of death, OR if living apart, was eligible for Social Security benefits on the beneficiary's earnings record for the month of death.

If there is no surviving spouse, the payment is made to a child who was eligible for benefits on the beneficiary's earnings record in the month of death.Monthly survivors benefits can be paid to certain family members, including the beneficiary's widow or widower, dependent children and dependent parents.

The following booklets contain more information about filing for benefits and can be downloaded; see related links

  • Survivors Benefits (Publication No. 05-10084)
  • Social Security: Understanding the Benefits(Publication No. 05-10024)

A family member or other person responsible for the beneficiary's affairs should do the following: Promptly notify Social Security of the beneficiary's death.

What is the difference in cremation cost vs conventional casket services at funeral homes?

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Cremation is usually several hundred, if not thousands, of dollars cheaper than burial or interrment in a vault. You can still have a conventional casket service and be cremated though, so the two aren't mutually exclusive.

Options on Cremation services?

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Cremation can be described as an alternative form of the typical funeral service. Cremation provides one with various options that can assist in coping with the process of the loss of a dear one. You can opt to have a memorable kind of cremation service at the funeral home. This approach will allow people to gather around the funeral home and pay their last respect to the person before cremation takes place. A rented casket can be utilized in order to view the deceased. The cremation services can be done at the funeral home, a lake or at the local church. Other locations can also be used for the cremation service.

Cremation Urns are a great way in which one can remember his or her loved one. They are available in different sizes and shapes. The cremation urn will allow one to store the remains of the person in a container of his her choice. The cremation urns are available in wood, vase, and bronze among other formats and materials.

There are those who opt to have the cremation services released in the typical funeral service. Families that may be having financial limitations can opt for cremation. The traditional funeral is involving and calls for a lot of arrangements that involve costs such as those of embalming, the casket, lot, burial marker and other expenses.

If you select cremation, it is possible to have the services offered similar to that of a regular funeral. Cremation has become increasingly common today with the majority indicating their preference for this form of send off before they die. This has lead to an increase in the number of cremations that take place in the US.

With these options in mind, you can also seek the advice and opinion of the funeral director. Once you have all the information that you require, then you can select the type of cremation service that you would want to have for you loved one.

What do you call the box of a cremation ash?

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The ashes are placed in a container, which can be anything from a simple cardboard box to a decorative urn.

Is it ok if you are a Catholic to be cremated?

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Catholic AnswerUnder certain circumstances, it is considered okay, although not preferred. Those circumstances include:

you are already dead

you are not using cremation to demonstrate a denial of faith in the resurrection of the body.

and finally, the Church prefers that if a body is cremated, it is done after the funeral.

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from The Catechism of the Catholic Church, second edition, English translation 19942301 . . . The Church permits cremation, provided that it does not demonstrate a denial of faith in the resurrection of the body. (Code of Canon Law, canon 1176, section 3)

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Although burial is considered a better choice, the Church allows cremations but that ashes are not allowed to be scattered since it is a pagan tradition and it is like rejecting eternal life since your body is reunited with your soul.

It was forbidden long ago because it is a pagan tradition but they allow it now.

It is more of a pagan tradition so it is discouraged but it is allowed nontheless. We believe God can change us back but the ashes should not be scattered because it is like we rejecting God's offer of eternal life since our souls will be reunited with our bodies.

How much do cremation services typically cost?

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According to the National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA), the average retail cost of a metal casket was $2,395 in 2012. (More than two thirds of all caskets sold in the US are metal caskets nowadays.)

Simple cloth covered wooden coffins, which often are used for cremation, start at retails prices around US $ 500. (Online casket retailer price; the prices charged by funeral homes are often, although not always, considerably higher). Simple caskets made of wood (with a wood finish) as well as 20 gauge steel casket without a sealing gasket are available at prices from around $ 1,000 upwards. Sheet Copper and bronze caskets start at $ 2,000 (Online price). Wooden luxury caskets made of solid mahogany which are between 2" and 4" thick, resulting in a weight between 400 and 600 lbs, can cost between $ 16,000 and 40,000 (particularly if equipped with one of the last copper or bronze inner liners). Copper deposit casket (made of electrolytically deposited copper) weighing between 600 and 800 lbs were even more expensive (currently - in 2014 - they are no longer in production). Today the most expensive casket on the US market is the cast bronze "Pharaoh Sarcophagus" made by the York-Matthews company: the casket, which weighs 1,100 lbs, has a manufacturer's suggested retail price of $ 270,000 , but it is offered by Online casket retailers already at a "bargain" price around $ 160, 000.

Is cremation allowed in Christianity?

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Some opinions from the community

  • Speaking as a Catholic cremation is now accepted however if the deceased has requested a burial mass in the church the body must be brought to the church for the mass and then cremation may be done after that mass has taken place the ashes of the deceased must be buried in a cemetery and not strewn, lets say, on a beach or on the ocean...
  • The Eastern Orthodox Church does not allow cremation. The Church from the earliest times practiced burial of the dead, as the Roman catacombs reveal. Christ resurrected the bodies of many people during His ministry on earth (such as Lazarus) and His disciples also performed many miracles and even resurrected the dead (Acts 9:36-41). So the Church views cremation as a mockery of Christ and His Apostles who resurrected human bodies, not ashes. During the great earthquake that happened immediately after Christ's death on the Cross, the graves opened up and the bodies of the saints were raised from the dead (Matthew 27:51-54). Cremation has also been the custom of most atheists and the pagan religions, which do not believe in resurrection, and that is another reason why the Christian Church has always been against it.

Answer2: The Scriptures do not present any basic objection to the practice of cremation.

There are Biblical accounts relating that the bodies or bones of dead people were burned. (Josh. 7:25; 2 Chron. 34:4, 5) We can see this from the account of the death of King Saul and his three sons. The four of them died battling the Philistines. One of the sons was Jonathan, the good friend and loyal supporter of David. When valiant Israelites living in Jabesh-gilead learned what had happened, they recovered the four bodies, burned them, and then buried the bones. David later praised those Israelites for their actions.

The Scriptural hope for the dead is the resurrection-God's restoration of the person to life. Whether a dead person is cremated or not, Jehovah is not limited in his ability to restore the person to life with a new body. The three faithful Hebrews who faced death in a fiery furnace as ordered by King Nebuchadnezzar did not need to fear that if they were thus destroyed, God could not resurrect them. (Dan. 3:16-18) That was also true of faithful servants of Jehovah who faced death and subsequent cremation in Nazi concentration camps. Various loyal servants of God have perished in explosions or in other ways that left no trace of their remains. Still, their resurrection is assured.-Rev. 20:13. Jehovah does not have to reassemble a person's former body in order to resurrect him. That is shown by God's resurrecting anointed Christians to heavenly life. Like Jesus, who was "made alive in the spirit," anointed Christians are resurrected as the same person but with a spiritual body. No part of their former physical body accompanies them to heaven.-1 Pet. 3:18; 1 Cor. 15:42-53; 1 John 3:2.

Our hope in the resurrection rests, not on what might be done with the physical corpse, but on faith in God's ability and desire to fulfill his promises. (Acts 24:15) Granted, we may not fully comprehend how God has performed the miracle of resurrection on past occasions or how he will do so in the future. Still, we put our trust in Jehovah. He has provided "a guarantee" by resurrecting Jesus.-Acts 17:31; Luke 24:2, 3.

Christians do well to take into consideration social norms, local sentiments, and legal requirements regarding the disposition of dead bodies. (2 Cor. 6:3, 4) Then, whether the body of a deceased person is to be cremated or not is a personal or family decision. Watchtower magazine 6/15/2014

What poetic elements cremation of sam mcgee has?

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yes there was the list of them are alliteration, hyperbole,metaphor,simile

What is the cost of cremation in Canada?

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The costs of cremations very across the country. Canada has a slightly higher cremation rate than the USA. The rate of cremation is very high in BC which is over 85%. The country as a whole has a cremation rate over 55%.

Costs can range from under $1,000 to over $5,000 or more depending on the other services that are requested.

Cremation costs are broken down to 5 areas:

1. Service fees from the funeral home

2. Merchandise costs for a cremation container or casket and an urn

3. Cremation retort fee which is the actual burning of the human remains

4. Cash disbursements such as death certificates and obituary notices

5. Taxes: GST or HST.

The Cremation of Sam McGee where does the poem take place?

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the setting is too easy canada,yukon territory,klondike river region,1890s,and i think that's all