I agree that it's distasteful, as is cremation. (I think John McArthur had a good teaching on that.) I'm not convinced that it's a hill I'm willing to die on though. (Pun intended!) I understand that in early Europe communities, (largely Christian), the deceased were buried in wooden coffins in small churchyards. The coffins and bodies w…
I agree that it's distasteful, as is cremation. (I think John McArthur had a good teaching on that.) I'm not convinced that it's a hill I'm willing to die on though. (Pun intended!) I understand that in early Europe communities, (largely Christian), the deceased were buried in wooden coffins in small churchyards. The coffins and bodies would "return to dust" naturally, and later generations would be buried on top. This isn't terribly different, although I'm aware that it's rooted in the modern religion of environmentalism....
It is terribly different. The reduction of the human body to utility is immeasurably distinct from the simple fact that bodies decay in time. Did you follow the link and read the full article?
Yes; I did read the full article, and have a hard time getting too worked up about the issue myself. Nothing about physical dead bodies is particularly appealing to me. I've buried both my parents, a brother and a brother-in-law in the last few years, and I don't spend a lot of time thinking about them mouldering in their coffins and the concrete vaults required by the cemetery; I think of them in their true Heavenly Home, free at last from the pain and strife of this world.
I agree that it's distasteful, as is cremation. (I think John McArthur had a good teaching on that.) I'm not convinced that it's a hill I'm willing to die on though. (Pun intended!) I understand that in early Europe communities, (largely Christian), the deceased were buried in wooden coffins in small churchyards. The coffins and bodies would "return to dust" naturally, and later generations would be buried on top. This isn't terribly different, although I'm aware that it's rooted in the modern religion of environmentalism....
It is terribly different. The reduction of the human body to utility is immeasurably distinct from the simple fact that bodies decay in time. Did you follow the link and read the full article?
Yes; I did read the full article, and have a hard time getting too worked up about the issue myself. Nothing about physical dead bodies is particularly appealing to me. I've buried both my parents, a brother and a brother-in-law in the last few years, and I don't spend a lot of time thinking about them mouldering in their coffins and the concrete vaults required by the cemetery; I think of them in their true Heavenly Home, free at last from the pain and strife of this world.