we creamated my uncle and i spread his ashes in the waters near san jacinto monument. that's where i had my first fishing experience and it was with him.
My mom wants to be cremated because she hates the idea that her body will be eaten by worms when she dies. I hate thinking of making funeral plans for my parents.
Again, physics is science. Not compatible with "spiritual" or any of those kind of related words. Spirituality is curiosity's consolation prize. Whether our consciousness survives death or not is very much a scientific question in that it either does or doesn't happen. It's predatory the amount of money the death industry makes... for a shiny wooden box! Yeah let's charge a grieving family tens of thousands of dollars when they're most vulnerable for the sake of "honoring the departed" aka buying the most expensive shiny box. In an episode of Penn and Teller they talk about the transition of the 'Parlor' into the 'Living Room' all coming from a magazine article in the early 20th century at a time when families would have wakes at their home in their Parlor. The magazine article made caskets in the parlor aesthetically taboo, so they changed the name to "Living Room" and created a huge industry surrounding death. I think it sounds neat to have my ashes shot into space like Gene Roddenberry or Lance Bass. Although I probably won't care at that point if I was stuffed and mounted. Ok, my family would. All the ceremony and expense is for the living's benefit anyway.
You can have your ashes made into a diamond so your spirit can exist till the end of the sun. http://www.lifegem.com/ Or cut the process a little shorter and be made into fireworks like Hunter Thompson. http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/4863331/detail.html
That is why you should request having a bell attached to your coffin. In the event you wake up, you just ring the bell.
no idea how true this is but i've heard the brain can still has electrical activity weeks or months after death.
I guess you people don't understand......you can make just about anything. And you can buy almost anything, well except time. But you know what they're not making anymore of? REAL ESTATE!! For God sakes burying worthless bodies uses some land up. I'm just saying though.
