Does anybody know if it's sin to be cremated when u die?n?

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Does anybody know if it's sin to be cremated when u die?n?

Answer 1

Ummm h**l no,why would that be a sin?

Answer 2

It depends on the religion. I suggest you read the Wikipedia articles on Cremation for a general idea of each religion's take on the topic, but refer to References for more detail.

Answer 3

It doesn't matter what happens to your body after death. It's just the shell that houses the soul. You often don't have a say in what happens to you so how can you be blamed for that. Personally, I want to be cremated. Having visited my dad's grave every week when I was a child, I know how empty and meaningless they can are. Due to a genetic disorder, I'm not allowed to donate my organs, (which is what I'd like to do - help others) but science can have it, if I can be of help that way. It's like the poem says;

Do not stand at my grave and weep,

I am not there, I do not sleep...  

Answer 4

What religion are you? If you're a Christian, I don't think so. If you're of another faith, though, I can't answer.

Answer 5

No it is not. One of the ways in which Christians have been martyred is to be cremated (burned) alive, and some have died in house fires and been burned up, etc., but they will still be resurrected when Christ returns. It does not really matter what happens to your body once you leave it, for it is only a tent, a temporary residence. You will get a perfect one when Christ comes back (assuming you are a follower of Christ, of course).

Answer 6

yes

Answer 7

No, it's not a sin, although if you are cremated, make sure that people know that you want your ashes to be kept together, and possibly buried in a cemetery.

What Teranam said

Answer 8

No. I could care less what 'sins' my body is taking part in, seeing how I will be dead.

Answer 9

I have yet to see anyone give me chapter and verse where cremation is a sin.  All it does is speed up a natural process of deterioration.  We were all made from the dust and to the dust we return.  I have a God that is going to give me a new body in the resurrection.  It does not matter to me what happens to this old, dying one after it is in the grave.  

It is interesting to note Paul the apostle as having made the statement "and though I give this body to be burned..."  If there was a problem why would he of all persons make that statment?

Answer 10

absolutely not eccl 12:6-7 explain it best read it for yourself but i will paraphrase it when the golden bowl breaks and the silver cord parts (when u die) the body goes back to dust from whence it came and the soul returns to the Father who gave it so even if u don't get cremated your body will still someday become dust just as if u had been so no God has no objections to cremation as long as it is not against what the deceased wanted

Answer 11

no, not at all. Donate your organs, though.

Answer 12

No. it is not in the Catholic church as long as the body is present for the

sacrament of the funeral mass.