You know, it's illegal to dig up graves in most states. What do you think about gravedigging and/or graverobbing? Is it weird, or can it make you a legend, like Indiana Jones?
Also, would you want to be buried (in satin, if you die young) or cremated?
I think I would want to be cremated, because I think coffins are waste of space and resources.
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Yuki-Anne - Posts: 1637
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I'd rather be burried than cremated because if you look all over Scripture, people who were cremated were typically criminals or people who were in outright disobedience to God. Personally, I think people who chose cremation have no friends because if they did have friends, why wouldn't they invite them to the funeral?
"And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.
But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus." Ephesians 2:1-7
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But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus." Ephesians 2:1-7
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Yamamaya (post: 1461734) wrote:This thread isn't about necromancy.
It isn't about necromancy at all.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necromancy
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aliveinHim (post: 1461729) wrote:I'd rather be burried than cremated because if you look all over Scripture, people who were cremated were typically criminals or people who were in outright disobedience to God. Personally, I think people who chose cremation have no friends because if they did have friends, why wouldn't they invite them to the funeral?
You have the funeral beforehand. Then they take you to the cremation place.
Personally, for me, I'd have them take whatever organs they could for other people, and then donate my body to science.
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My Aunty once said "I'd like to be cremated, and have my ashes put into fireworks so my friends can have a fun party to remmember me in" XD
I don't know. I honestly don't care. I'll be in heaven, and my body will just be an empty shell. Without my soul, It's not worth much
I don't know. I honestly don't care. I'll be in heaven, and my body will just be an empty shell. Without my soul, It's not worth much
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aliveinHim wrote:Personally, I think people who chose cremation have no friends because if they did have friends, why wouldn't they invite them to the funeral?
You act as if being cremated prevents you from having a funeral, which isn't the case. You can have a funeral even if you're cremated you know. In fact you can have funerals without a body. What do you think they do for people who are lost at sea and never found, or burned alive in a building, or blown up by explosives or something? They still have a funeral even if they don't have a body.
Although as Atria said, usually when someone chooses to be cremated, they still preserve the body and have a viewing of it for friends and family, THEN cremate it after that. Though I do think they also sometimes cremate the person and then put the ashes in an urn on display. It might depend on the funeral home, or the wishes of the person dying.
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You made my day XD I acctually thought this thread was about the gravedigging of threads XD
My Aunty once said "I'd like to be cremated, and have my ashes put into fireworks so my friends can have a fun party to remmember me in" XD
I don't know. I honestly don't care. I'll be in heaven, and my body will just be an empty shell. Without my soul, It's not worth much. I hope that my friends will do whatever they think would feel best for them, though Now that I think about it, I might like to have a gravestone or memorial or something they could visit, if that would make them feel better. I cartainly know it would make me feel better.
Unless, of course, nobody cares that I'm dead, wich is possible, but I would hope otherwise.
[Edit] Wow...what happened there...I was just editing...and somehow it turned into a double post.....
You made my day XD I acctually thought this thread was about the gravedigging of threads XD
My Aunty once said "I'd like to be cremated, and have my ashes put into fireworks so my friends can have a fun party to remmember me in" XD
I don't know. I honestly don't care. I'll be in heaven, and my body will just be an empty shell. Without my soul, It's not worth much. I hope that my friends will do whatever they think would feel best for them, though Now that I think about it, I might like to have a gravestone or memorial or something they could visit, if that would make them feel better. I cartainly know it would make me feel better.
Unless, of course, nobody cares that I'm dead, wich is possible, but I would hope otherwise.
[Edit] Wow...what happened there...I was just editing...and somehow it turned into a double post.....
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Atria35 (post: 1461742) wrote:You have the funeral beforehand. Then they take you to the cremation place.
Personally, for me, I'd have them take whatever organs they could for other people, and then donate my body to science.
I've actually signed up for organ donation because I know when I'm dead, someone's going to need my pancreas, liver, heart, lungs, or whatever more than me.
"And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.
But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus." Ephesians 2:1-7
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But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus." Ephesians 2:1-7
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Lynna wrote:My Aunty once said "I'd like to be cremated, and have my ashes put into fireworks so my friends can have a fun party to remember me in" XD
You have no idea how happy it makes me to hear that someone else has thought of that.
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I don't want people viewing my dead body after I'm gone. Maybe it's just me, but it's a level of creepiness akin to somebody watching you sleep, Edward Cullen style. Rather, everybody you know and love and a few people you don't watching you sleep, Edward Cullen style.
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Yuki-Anne (post: 1461754) wrote:I don't want people viewing my dead body after I'm gone. Maybe it's just me, but it's a level of creepiness akin to somebody watching you sleep, Edward Cullen style. Rather, everybody you know and love and a few people you don't watching you sleep, Edward Cullen style.
XD Edward Cullen style. I love the sound of that XD
Except, unlike watching people in their sleep* shudders* you can't hear them sleep-talking
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I've signed up for organ donation as well. I mean, I won't need them by then, may as well help someone else.
But I'd definitely ask for a closed-casket service. The last service I went to was open-casket, and it felt almost like an insult when there were pictures of the person while he was alive playing on the screen. There was no resemblance at all.
The fact that you repeated the phrase "Edward Cullen style" somehow makes it even creepier. XD
But I'd definitely ask for a closed-casket service. The last service I went to was open-casket, and it felt almost like an insult when there were pictures of the person while he was alive playing on the screen. There was no resemblance at all.
Yuki-Anne wrote:Maybe it's just me, but it's a level of creepiness akin to somebody watching you sleep, Edward Cullen style. Rather, everybody you know and love and a few people you don't watching you sleep, Edward Cullen style.
The fact that you repeated the phrase "Edward Cullen style" somehow makes it even creepier. XD
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i think gravedigging/robbing is disrespectful to the family of that person...but...meh.
as for how i'd like to be taken care of after death? i've donated my body/organs, but everyone should keep in mind that when you sign on for being a donor...it doesn't just mean for people who are dying. it also means you'll be donating your body to students to practice on...and not just the life saving medical students...the plastic surgeons usually come first...and usually pick the heads of people. But that doesn't bother me.
as for how i'd like to be taken care of after death? i've donated my body/organs, but everyone should keep in mind that when you sign on for being a donor...it doesn't just mean for people who are dying. it also means you'll be donating your body to students to practice on...and not just the life saving medical students...the plastic surgeons usually come first...and usually pick the heads of people. But that doesn't bother me.
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I thought something similar, haha!
Grave robbing (what the topic is actually about) is pretty wrong. Not that there's something mystical about touching dead bodies, but you're not respecting the ones still alive.
As for me, I want to be donated to a medical school. No money for the burial, and my body has a purpose.
I thought something similar, haha!
Grave robbing (what the topic is actually about) is pretty wrong. Not that there's something mystical about touching dead bodies, but you're not respecting the ones still alive.
As for me, I want to be donated to a medical school. No money for the burial, and my body has a purpose.
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I'm planning to have my corpse fitted with animatronics so that I can dance at my own funeral. I'm thinking of leading the Thriller dance.
Also, if someone digs up my corpse, I want to twitch and move, just to creep out any grave robbers.
Also, if someone digs up my corpse, I want to twitch and move, just to creep out any grave robbers.
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mechana2015 (post: 1461748) wrote:You have no idea how happy it makes me to hear that someone else has thought of that.
o.O .......
:lol::lol::lol:Kaligraphic (post: 1461797) wrote:I'm planning to have my corpse fitted with animatronics so that I can dance at my own funeral. I'm thinking of leading the Thriller dance.
Also, if someone digs up my corpse, I want to twitch and move, just to creep out any grave robbers.
Umm... I guess that's creative at least!
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Kaligraphic (post: 1461797) wrote:I'm planning to have my corpse fitted with animatronics so that I can dance at my own funeral. I'm thinking of leading the Thriller dance.
Also, if someone digs up my corpse, I want to twitch and move, just to creep out any grave robbers.
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My dad was cremated; my sister was cremated; my mom would like to be when she dies. Given the scarcity of burial plots, the expense of a casket, and the eventual end of everybody -- 'remember, man, you are dust, and to dust you will return' -- cremation just accelerates the decaying process at considerably less expense.
As for gravedigging -- let's face it, digging up a body buried three years ago makes you a criminal, digging up one buried three thousand years ago makes you a researcher, and digging up one buried three million years ago* makes you famous. What's the difference?
*Anthropological dating, your time scale may vary according to your creation beliefs....
As for gravedigging -- let's face it, digging up a body buried three years ago makes you a criminal, digging up one buried three thousand years ago makes you a researcher, and digging up one buried three million years ago* makes you famous. What's the difference?
*Anthropological dating, your time scale may vary according to your creation beliefs....
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There is never any reason beyond forensics to dig up graves. Stealing is wrong, so too bad if they had something flashy buried with them. I think Otaku made a good point. Although I think it'd be permisable as a way to learn of ancient cultures we don't know much about, but after the're done everything should be restored.
On a side note, Tomb raiding in video games is ok, becase anything in a chest belongs to you unless specified otherwise in the name. XD
On a side note, Tomb raiding in video games is ok, becase anything in a chest belongs to you unless specified otherwise in the name. XD
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Yuki-Anne (post: 1461722) wrote:You know, it's illegal to dig up graves in most states. What do you think about gravedigging and/or graverobbing?
This is totally not what I thought this thread was going to be about! Like other people, I thought it was going to be about digging up dead threads. :-)
Also, would you want to be buried (in satin, if you die young) or cremated?
I'd rather be cremated, because then I would take up less space. Also, I lived near the Mississippi during a flood years ago, and I remember being appalled when some cemeteries were flooded. The coffins and their contents were washed away. Of course that didn't bother the deceased themselves, but it was disgusting and a health risk, and it was traumatic for the families of the deceased. Watching that on the news made me think that I'd rather be cremated than run the risk of that happening to my body after I died.
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ClosetOtaku (post: 1461821) wrote:As for gravedigging -- let's face it, digging up a body buried three years ago makes you a criminal, digging up one buried three thousand years ago makes you a researcher, and digging up one buried three million years ago* makes you famous. What's the difference?
Is there a way I can donate my body to Anthropologists of the year 5000?
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Cognitive Gear (post: 1461842) wrote:Is there a way I can donate my body to Anthropologists of the year 5000?
I hear Greenland's a good place to bury stuff for posterity...
Yamamaya (post: 1461837) wrote:I shall turn you all into zombies when you die thus it is irrelevant where you will be buried.
One more reason to get cremated.
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