I've never heard of "green burial" and so I thought I might need to have a Jewish funeral because I don't want a never-decay box and I don't want to be embalmed. I'd prefer no box at all but just a shroud and drop me in the ground. I used to hate the idea of rotting so I wanted to be cremated. But with much death meditation, I've found I'd prefer to rot. My reasons for this are very weird.
I don't think about rebirth as karmically related. That felt like childhood wishful thinking of payback.
No clue if I believe in reincarnation where there is more than what you write above. I have a few past life memories and even more past life "feelings", but I don;t know that they mean a damn thing.
Oh, had to look yahrzeit up! Do you make your own candles? Could some of the ashes be used in the process of making a "Yahrzeit Candle?" That could be kinda cool! ;->
At age 43, Hel just got his first Class C license (we're driving around town in his mom's Big-Ass-Truck, which we've got custody of for 9 months while she's in Saudi Arabia!). He's been riding motorcycles since he was 15, and that's ALL he's ever owned, and he rides rain or shine, because if he doesn't, he don't go nowhere. ;-> So, really, he should be scattered via the "tailpipe method," I think, LOL. He wants an ocean scattering, though, so I reckon if we can't back up to the beach, we'll just sprinkle and/or dump what remains. ;-> I'll probably end up sprinkled and strewn off the View Point in Alpine, but I'm not married to the idea; I dislike ash plots, though, so I'm getting sprinkled, strewn, or plain dumped somewhere! ;->
I do like the idea of a Green burial; the expense is the major deterrent. Cremation is nice and cheap, so it seems the best fit for all
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I used to hate the idea of rotting so I wanted to be cremated. But with much death meditation, I've found I'd prefer to rot.
My reasons for this are very weird.
I don't think about rebirth as karmically related. That felt like childhood wishful thinking of payback.
No clue if I believe in reincarnation where there is more than what you write above. I have a few past life memories and even more past life "feelings", but I don;t know that they mean a damn thing.
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At age 43, Hel just got his first Class C license (we're driving around town in his mom's Big-Ass-Truck, which we've got custody of for 9 months while she's in Saudi Arabia!). He's been riding motorcycles since he was 15, and that's ALL he's ever owned, and he rides rain or shine, because if he doesn't, he don't go nowhere. ;-> So, really, he should be scattered via the "tailpipe method," I think, LOL. He wants an ocean scattering, though, so I reckon if we can't back up to the beach, we'll just sprinkle and/or dump what remains. ;-> I'll probably end up sprinkled and strewn off the View Point in Alpine, but I'm not married to the idea; I dislike ash plots, though, so I'm getting sprinkled, strewn, or plain dumped somewhere! ;->
I do like the idea of a Green burial; the expense is the major deterrent. Cremation is nice and cheap, so it seems the best fit for all ( ... )
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