Why when some people die?

[eagle1951]

Why when some people die do they choose to be cremated?

[CupcakeTheDestroyer]

Let's be real, traditional funeral rites are a bitch and a half, not only because they can be ridiculously expensive but your body is heavily preserved before being buried forever where no one can see it. Funeral homes have adopted and continued the tradition of embalming since the 1940's so people could still have a wake with their loved ones who may have died weeks or months before they arrived back in the states from wherever they were shipped off to in WW2. This makes sense if someone dies overseas and you want to bring them home to say goodbye and bury them, it doesn't really make much sense if you die in a hospital around the corner from home, or in your home, so lots of people choose not to embalm but we don't always get to make that choice.

Cremation is much, MUCH cheaper in comparison. Your average burial, even without embalming, can cost around $1000 just for the process of getting a box to bury them in (natural burials are an option but in my state every body that's buried is legally required to be in a coffin) and then the burial itself. Not to mention the headstone can easily cost upwards of several hundred dollars on its own. The average cremation is still pricey, and it takes longer to burn a body into ash completely, but $750 is a lot easier on the wallet than $1000. And with cremations, you have the options of letting your ashes be spread in a place of memoriam, or even just used to be given to loved ones. There are tons of places that will take the ashes of your loved ones to turn into jewelry or picture frames or something else so you can always have a piece of them that isn't sitting in an urn.

In short, the business of death is very profitable, and burning your corpse can be cheaper than burying it.

[sheikalana]

I have no intention in dying anything soon but I've already told my family and my husband that I wish to be cremated. I do not like the idea of being buried.

[eagle1951]

interesting

[lightbulb27]

seems the thing to do to save space. I have a hard time with the concept, but likely the way to go. Why be burried in a casket...

ugh... hard stuff to process... facing death. Good to know Christ...

[strateguy632]

i imagine all the area of India and china taken by tombstones and coffins of another billion people every generation

[Lyndsielee666]

Tradition? My family is Buddhist and Animistic and they cremate 🤷🏻‍♀️ I already told my best friend to cremate me and toss my ass into the sea afterward.

[DizzyDesii]

I dont mind being cremated. Its cheaper and i won't be around anyways. I just ask that im actually dead before they fry me

[eagle1951]

I've had bad dreams about that

[Simslover92]

My grandmother wants to be cremated and her reasoning is that she doesn't want to decay in the ground and it's much cheaper.

[TrueConfection]

I think some people cringe at the thought of their body decaying in the ground. I personally want my body to be buried.

[Staximus]

So their family doesn't have to pay for a grave site, religious reasons, they don't want people crying over their grave, they want their ashes scattered in their favorite place, etc.

[genericname85]

cause that way you make the least fuzz for the people who have to deal with your dead body.

[Jazzy54]

Personal preference, I suppose.

[SaoirseS]

Primarily because it’s much cheaper.

[zagor]

Why not? You're dead.