On Funerals, Cremation, and the Gospel Inbox

Very good. I liked the quote, “grief shared is grief diminished.”

Today, though, there’s a lot of chatter, laughing, joking at funerals. And they are much too expensive.

My family and most friends are older. I should outlive them. I can afford the funeral, but why? Who will be left to attend?

And the grave? Not one of my children nor grands will ever visit my grave. And if they did by accident, what would they see? A tombstone and some grass.

I don’t know. Just doesn’t seem to make sense. Better to leave the extra money to my church, it seems.

 

Or we could bury people like they did in Jesus time…

We could let the dead body’s flesh rot off the bones and be eaten by worms in a cave.
Then after a year the eldest son would collect the bones and put them in a bone box with past ancestors.

Modern burials are more like Egyptian entombments… preserve the body by embalming it. Dress up the body and place it in a decorated casket and entomb it in a stone vault.

Ashes to ashes for me. That’s biblical enough.

Although I let my wife know that she can choose and surprise me.

Rob

 

I like that. Or a simple pine box in the ground, no embalming, no vault, no fancy casket. Put 'em in a blanket, in the pine box, in the ground. Five hundred dollars to a thousand dollars should be plenty.

 

“…bury my dead out of my sight.” -Abraham.

 

Sorry, but it's cremation for my wife and me. We've had enough funerals and their "show." My mother in laws funeral was a zoo, and my sisters was full of people saying one thing about her after years of opposing everything she did in trying to start an alternative Christian school. Plus, the picture taking and the gawking is ridiculous.

 

And there is not a soul who ever visit our graves. Why should they? We’ll be with the Lord Jesus.

Nothing to see, but a rock, and a patch of grass, and they don’t see me while I’m living; they won’t bother to go to a graveyard.