How to burry someone

[green white]

Guys, I want to ask you. I curious about that.
In my country if someone pass away, he burry with his religion methond. And i hear if in America or Europe no word about religion in Identity Card and many Atheist in there. So, I curious about how atheist man burry if he die. And how someone burry if he not have familly (I mean he burry with what method?)
:rolleyes:

[Horatio Nelson]

Guys, I want to ask you. I curious about that.
In my country if someone pass away, he burry with his religion methond. And i hear if in America or Europe no word about religion in Identity Card and many Atheist in there. So, I curious about how atheist man burry if he die. And how someone burry if he not have familly (I mean he burry with what method?)
:rolleyes:

As far as I know, there is difference, no matter your religion, in the US.

Most people are taken to a morgue and their body is "prepared" for a funeral, you buy a casket for the body, the body is put in the casket, you have a funeral service of your choosing, they put the casket inside of a concrete box, I think, and they seal it and put it in the ground.

Don't quote me on that though. I'm not 100% certain.

[Kurgg]

I highly doubt that there will be a situoation when there are no relatives alive. I think is is up to the person to be buried how he wants it to be done.

[Camazotz]

Well first of all, people are buried based on the wishes left in their will or however the family wants them buried, if the deceased never made that clear. Some adults buy burial plots with their spouse so their bodies can "be together forever."

There's also the method of cremation, which is when your body is burned and made into ashes, and your family can keep the ashes or leave them or take them to be thrown somewhere, like an ocean or Mount Everest.

Financially, cremation is cheaper than burial, so I'm more inclined to have that done to me if I die, assuming I can't donate my body to science or something. I don't want my family to have to see my corpse or have me dressed up and put on display before having me buried.

As an atheist without any knowledge of how atheist funerals are done, I would prefer to donate my body or cremated if they don't accept my body. If my family wants to hold a memorial service where my friends and relatives get together to pay their respects to my family, can talk about me, etc. Then they could go to a restaurant together, and that'd be the end of me. It sounds fine and dandy if you ask me.

[JamesSuperBoy]

In the Uk at least we have the option of a Humanist funeral

see
https://humanism.org.uk/ceremonies/non-religious-funerals/

The family or deceased can have set out how a funeral will be held according to thier wishes and often that is faith based i e a church ceremony prior to burial.

There is laws in place to dictate what happens when someone dies and there are no family or the family cannot for example be involved or pay for a funeral. The local government offices will arrange a funeral.

[TheN3rdyOutcast]

Some people are buried, somemare cremated, some donate their bodies to science, it all honestly depends on what you want.

[Miserabilia]

Burying the dead definetly isn't strictly christian, it's been ascociated with it heavily in western culture, but alot of atheist choose to get buried too.
If they don't, they can always get cremated and do something kewl with their ashes (Like growing a tree in them, or sending them to space or something.)

I wouldn't want to get cremated though, I'll definetly donate my body for organs and to scientific reasarch.
Organ donation ftw!

[Noxail]

Just to pop in and clarify; if someone does die with no will, no family, and no property in which to pay for the funeral, the state/county pays for a cheap disposition of the body. Most bodies who are disposed of by the state are of homeless peoples, who have no family or no financial security. The deceased's family is given ten days in which to claim the body. If none step forward, then the body is offered to the Commission of Anatomy, which donates human cadavers to the research and education of the science of anatomy. If it's rejected by the CoA, the body is either buried in a communal cemetery, or cremated and ashes are spread in a local historic place; it varies from county to county, and state to state, depending on how conservative the local authority is.

~holli

[CosmicNoodle]

In the EU your burial will be a basic state one of you have no family, there's really arnt many different kinds here, just the standard "in a box in a hole" method, but being g cremated is the most common here, saves space.

[Waleedbt]

Well, in the middle east , we strictly only burry the dead. As our religion stats that its disrespectful to God to burn the body, plus it will benefit the animals and plants, not sure how though dont ask meee xD
Plus, our book claims that the body is a gift from god and its not ours to do such things to it.

The soul is yours though :)


Edit: did some quick research ;p

[Gamma Male]

What a misleading title. :lol:

I want my body to be cryogenically frozen when I die.

[Horatio Nelson]

What a misleading title. :lol:

I want my body to be cryogenically frozen when I die.

Haha! I thought the same thing when I read! :P


You can join Mr. Disney. :D

[Karkat]

Well, in the middle east , we strictly only burry the dead. As our religion stats that its disrespectful to God to burn the body, plus it will benefit the animals and plants, not sure how though dont ask meee xD
Plus, our book claims that the body is a gift from god and its not ours to do such things to it.

The soul is yours though :)


Edit: did some quick research ;p

Unless the body is just left to rot, and not embalmed, it is CERTAINLY not good for the environment- embalming fluid, casket materials, etc. are toxic.

I kind of want to be made into ash and buried in one of those tree-urns like you see on Facebook

Cremation is not so good for the environment either, but I think that's the best option, plus I think a tree is so much cooler a commemoration than cold stone. Cemeteries make me a bit depressed.

My brother is actually a mortician, so I have a fair amount of knowledge on the subject. Not a ton- I don't like thinking about death, but a fair amount.

[Kurgg]

Unless the body is just left to rot, and not embalmed, it is CERTAINLY not good for the environment- embalming fluid, casket materials, etc. are toxic.

Usually though Muslims bury the corpses without the cascet or fluids. Just the corpse and some rags. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, that's what I know.

[Miserabilia]

What a misleading title. :lol:

I want my body to be cryogenically frozen when I die.

ikr, at first I thought they were trying to hide the body of who they murdered :lol:

[plebble]

Well I'm an atheist and I'm not actually quite sure. I'm 'officially' a Christian as I was Christened at 5 months old.

I've always wanted my body to either be frozen and preserved or shot into the sun... so... yeah, not sure...

[Sir Suomi]

It depends purely on what you state in your will, or what your family chooses to do with your body.

Personally, I want to be cremated and have my ashes be buried with a tree sapling, that way, out of my death can life be made, that whole deal :P

[CharlieHorse]

commonly in the US, with religious or non-religious individuals, there is a coffin and a funeral where people remember all the good things the person did and stuff like that before they bury the body.
Or there's cremation, where the body is burned and the ashes are spread around a place like a forest that the person who died chose before when they were living.

[Apollo.]

Off topic really but I want to be cremated so that I know my brain is destroyed and its not going to just be like being able to think and stuff but not move or speak if that makes sense, like who knows what happens when you die it could just be a boring blackness forever that your still kind of aware of. So my brain is in ashes I wont be able to know about it if that makes any sense? Probably not. Anyways I want to be cremated then my ashes sprayed from the co2 cannons at tomorrowland or some big ass rave!

[Camazotz]

Unless the body is just left to rot, and not embalmed, it is CERTAINLY not good for the environment- embalming fluid, casket materials, etc. are toxic.

I kind of want to be made into ash and buried in one of those tree-urns like you see on Facebook

Cremation is not so good for the environment either, but I think that's the best option, plus I think a tree is so much cooler a commemoration than cold stone. Cemeteries make me a bit depressed.

My brother is actually a mortician, so I have a fair amount of knowledge on the subject. Not a ton- I don't like thinking about death, but a fair amount.

Usually though Muslims bury the corpses without the cascet or fluids. Just the corpse and some rags. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, that's what I know.

Yup! I don't know where it was (maybe reddit?), but I recently read that embalming is almost exclusively a Western thing nowadays, and it's most common in America (not nearly as common in Europe). We "doll" up the corpses to look all nice and fancy before they're buried.

The guy was from the UK, and posted his story about his deceased relative and his family visited the body in the morgue despite the mortician's warning that the body had started to decay. They said their final good-byes, and it wasn't too bad, but there were clear signs of decay.

I guess embalming is a cultural thing, it shocked me when I read that most countries don't embalm their dead; I had assumed everyone was embalmed and buried or cremated. Islam definitely doesn't allow their dead to be embalmed.

[Karkat]

Yup! I don't know where it was (maybe reddit?), but I recently read that embalming is almost exclusively a Western thing nowadays, and it's most common in America (not nearly as common in Europe). We "doll" up the corpses to look all nice and fancy before they're buried.

The guy was from the UK, and posted his story about his deceased relative and his family visited the body in the morgue despite the mortician's warning that the body had started to decay. They said their final good-byes, and it wasn't too bad, but there were clear signs of decay.

I guess embalming is a cultural thing, it shocked me when I read that most countries don't embalm their dead; I had assumed everyone was embalmed and buried or cremated. Islam definitely doesn't allow their dead to be embalmed.

Interesting. IMO that's the way to do it anyways.

[Camazotz]

Interesting. IMO that's the way to do it anyways.

Yeah. In Islam, the body should be buried within 24 hours. In our Western culture, we have to call all friends and relatives to let them know, choose a day where the maximum number of people can attend a funeral (usually on the weekend), and keep the body "fresh" until then, which is why we have to embalm.

The only time you can get tons of friends and relatives together is if someone dies, or if someone wins the lottery I guess; that's really messed up.

[Karkat]

Yeah. In Islam, the body should be buried within 24 hours. In our Western culture, we have to call all friends and relatives to let them know, choose a day where the maximum number of people can attend a funeral (usually on the weekend), and keep the body "fresh" until then, which is why we have to embalm.

The only time you can get tons of friends and relatives together is if someone dies, or if someone wins the lottery I guess; that's really messed up.

Agree entirely.

[Waleedbt]

Usually though Muslims bury the corpses without the cascet or fluids. Just the corpse and some rags. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, that's what I know.


Edit:

Yes, we burry without a coffin, But! We clean the body completely.
We also make the dead dress in pure white cloth.


Yes, in islam we burry the body the next day and make a funeral that lasts 3 days, segregated too ofcourse.

[ChaseDakoda]

I know that in the USA you are to bury the ashes with respect and that is a urn and a cement enclosure for urn and a cemetary plot or tumb. This is a law that people disobay a lot.

[Stronk Serb]

Well, I want them to toss me into a hole, and plant a tree over me. After the tree has grown up, I want my family or friends to engrave: "Here lied Mike, from him I blossomed. Even in death you can help someone and make him happy!"
Also launching me into the sun or even outer space sounds fun. If it becomes possible, I'd love to have my brain extracted and put into a cybernetic body. Essentially making me immortal as long as there is no further brain damage and decay, but I doubt it can be fully countered.

[anrigirl]

Here in South Africa some of the black people burn their people in a fire within hours after death, which I find a bit disturbing.

[micheal951]

Simple really, stick them in the ground, or cremation, same for everyone, religious or not. I personally want to be burnt to ash and dust....I do not fancy being stuck in the ground.

[goodnightxmoonx]

This is slightly off-topic, although I did see something about how embalming isn't good for the environment -

I watched this TED talk the other day about the "Mushroom Death Suit." It's interesting and the video isn't creepy at all! It just talks about how, if you want to "donate your body to nature" (not science. Just like, return your elements to nature and stuff) you could wear the Mushroom Death Suit, which had lots of fungi spores in it just waiting to sprout....

Kinda creepy if you ask me but I suppose it's a really good thing for the environment.