I've Never Heard This Opinion On Death Before.Check It Out

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MR.KAZ

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Hi All!

I just had to tell you guys about this gentleman from the chess club.He's quite religious(Old School)He is 74,and the nicest guy you would ever want to meet,which is why he 0:) caught me off-guard with a remark that made me laugh,big time!

Every Sunday he picks me up and drives me to the chess club.We were discussing the ultimate mystery,that being death.So the conversation continued and out of the blue he said.."I think burying dead people is a waste of space."I knew what he was thinking.When we die,our souls return to God,whereas the body remains in the ground,serving no purpose.

I'm very interested to know your feelings on the topic.

God Bless,
MR.KAZ
 
Well, take burial in a different method. Rather than putting ones body in a sarcophagus, one could be simply buried. The body would thus decompose and return to the Earth, or Gaia if you'd like to refer to it in that sense instead, re-nurturing the land... so not ever lifeless body is a waste of space.
 
Hell Scyth said:
Well, take burial in a different method. Rather than putting ones body in a sarcophagus, one could be simply buried. The body would thus decompose and return to the Earth, or Gaia if you'd like to refer to it in that sense instead, re-nurturing the land... so not ever lifeless body is a waste of space.
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That's a good point Scyth,I never thought of it that way.
 
No prob.You can kinda look to nature itself for that. It's a circle of life that those who die will nurture those of the future (in a spiritualist sense), either physically, as with making the land fertile enough to produce a higher yield of crop (any kind that grows) to feed those who eat the crop, which in turns can feed those who eat them. When they die, they reset the process. I'm sure you understand the Spiritual sense yourself without an example. :)
 
I've always been of the opinion that funerals, burial rituals etc, were more for the living than the dead. A way to show respect, an outlet for grief.
 
hikari said:
I've always been of the opinion that funerals, burial rituals etc, were more for the living than the dead. A way to show respect, an outlet for grief.
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Good point, I never thought about it that way! I personally don't really want a "normal funeral". I'd just as soon go off and die somewhere alone in the forests I spent so much time in as a kid.
 
I think that since us human beings have a higher brain power than animals and having higher emotional distress by alot more than any animal makes its so that the burial process and the mass or what you call it for the dead body, Is just a way for the human mind to slowly get rid of the stress of death.

When an animal dies it just sits and dies and is left there to be eaten which helps nature.
I personally think that we should just get rid of the whole grave site and coffin thing and just use the dead bodies to grow trees or grass or something

put them to good use and grow things instead of taking up space that could be forest of housing area but instead is littered with dead bodies.
 
hikari said:
I've always been of the opinion that funerals, burial rituals etc, were more for the living than the dead. A way to show respect, an outlet for grief.
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+1 on that note. That is one of the essential ideas that I picked up taking a semester class called "archaeology of death".

There are several reasons for burials in general. One is to dispose of the body so that the living do not have to smell/see the decay. One purpose of burial sites is to mark territory. If one's ancestors are buried in a place, they consider it their ancestoral land and those burials serve as a marker for ownership of that land (and the associated resources).

The specifics of a funeral are more for the living to grieve rather than for the dead, as the dead are no longer there to see the events.
 
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