Reply #2: I never understood burial . . . .

[abumbyanyothername]

I had elected cremation . . . .

Then I saw a History Channel piece on the Tibetan book of the dead where they carry the dead body to a remote place to be picked clean by other animals, a final gift to the universe, while the soul continues its trek through the realms of death to a new life. Cool, but probably not doable in the US.

Maybe the route my parents are taking of donating their bodies to science . . . essentially allowing medical students to cut them up to see how the body functions and what diseases have done to them.

In any event, God forbid the living should venerate my physical form after I am dead. Now its a different story if anyone wants to worship my body while I'm alive . . . .