Cremation prevents the dead body from being a source of disease. Like a burial, a cremation gives the loved ones of the deceased a ceremony to say goodbye. Fire is an important symbol in many cultures.
Burial plots can be expensive and suitably deep soil may not be available in some locations.
Some may simply prefer to be cremated rather than buried for other, more personal, reasons.
Burning of the body prevents the deceased from coming back as a flesh eating-zombie. It's more of a safety issue.
It's done most often now to save money
It has the added effect of saving space in cemeteries, which is especially beneficial in places like Europe where the cemeteries have been full for centuries.
Some people think its 'cleaner', since if you let yourself just buried, worms eat you and you rot and stuff. Other people do it for religious reasons.
Absolutely. Just take the body to any veterinary surgery - and ask them to cremate it for you.
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You can't - to cremate an animal takes intense heat (up to 1800 degrees F), which is not possible to sustain at home.
Sikhs only cremate.
It is illegal in the United States but not in some other parts of the world.
Sam McGee asks the Speaker to cremate his body by burning it in a crematorium. He wants to be cremated because he is afraid of the cold and does not want to be buried in the icy ground of the Arctic.
Elpenor asks Odysseus to cremate and bury his body, putting his oar above his grave.
The amount of heat that is required to cremate a human body, would destroy all forms of disease. Therefore, NO it is no possible to catch a disease from the remains of a human.
Yes, Sam McGee dies in the poem "The Cremation of Sam McGee". He hated the cold and a man promised him that he would cremate his body so that his spirit would be warm. After Sam died, the man kept his promise and cremated him.
bury or cremate them
They embalmed their dead because they believed they would not go to the afterlife otherwise. Embalming was a way for the spirit to leave the body.
Some one close to that person is the only one that can get the body moved unless they can't get a hold of them then they will contact someone else to make a decision whether it not to move it or cremate it