Can God microwave a burrito so hot that even he can't eat it? Seriously; Is there an LDS prohibition formal or informal, against cremation? I personally would love to be cremated when I die. But it's likely that my TBM fam will dress my cadaver in a baker's costume and bury me in a casket encased in a concrete vault. Expenses that could be better applied to the needs of the living! Of course I won't care. I'll be F-ing dead!
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Let me do you one better. Take my ashes and plant them in a garden. I am the soil, and then the plants, fruits, and vegetables. When I am used as the fuel to support a growing, new life, say, a fetus or a young child, who "gets" that matter in the resurrection? Matter (according to mormon doctrine) can't be created ex nihilo, so will I have to worry about stealing back the kidney of a young child? Another piece of mormonism that never made sense.
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I have actually been told that cremated remains are harder for God to resurrect. I guess that remains that have rotted to dust are easier to reconstruct for some ridiculous reason. I don't know why God would go all Bartleby on us like that, refusing the more challenging tasks.
to be used by medical students. Cremation will follow after use. I expect to have no problems getting to the next life (I personally believe there IS one), and I expect no chastisement when I get there.
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Ha! Older TBMs think you won't be resurrected as quickly if you're cremated. My MIL is extremely against cremation, something about coming forth in the 2nd resurrection, not the first, because god has to gather up all your pieces together first. She is aghast at the fact that dh insists on being cremated (fine by me, it's much cheaper). My father is against cremation too.
I've always thought it was so silly that TBMs thought this way, even when I was TBM. Do they not think about the millions of people that have died over thousands of years whose bodies are now literally dust?
There was no turning back. And that had to be some 40 years ago. Reading about what-all is done to bodies to prettify them for funerals so they won't smell bad and they will look more like they are just asleep than that they are DEAD. . .that did me in.
To me, cremation is the simplest, least expensive, and most earth-friendly way there is. If Mormons have a problem with it, well, that's ANOTHER point in its favor!