Depends on how and when I die and who's still alive. What I do NOT want is an open casket funeral with people filing by saying "She looks so natural!!!"
Cremation sounds best to me--too much imagination combined with too many years of sermons about worms and rot--plus the whole entombment process, from embalming methods to encasement just seems disgusting and unnatural. It seems like a way to maintain physical immortality to me. Cremation is "ashes to ashes, dust to dust"... just a lot faster than the old fashioned method. Some in my family think cremation is unChristian because they believe in a physical resurrection. I guess they don't think anyone that went "ashes to ashes, dust to dust", whether they were born thousands of years ago or died a martyr's death, can be resurrected. I think God's power is greater than that.
But there are also people in my family that think foul play is involved in any funeral that involves a closed casket, cremation, or organ donation. They're weird, but they're the ones that have to deal with the emotions and the sorrow, so I'll leave it to their choice. At least for now.
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