Three weeks ago yesterday, a good friend of mine died while we where horse camping up in Elk County PA. He was a happy camper, saw all sorts of elk , deer, and bear. Our rides where wonderful. And that is he how he wanted to die. It was nice.
He also wished to be cremated, which he was. For some reason, when I was driving to the doctors this morning, I was thinking of my friend when I passed a cemetery which got me thinking.
While I have been sorting out my beliefs, I have the ashes to ashes mind set. Going past the cemetery, I found there is a bit of a conundrum within my beliefs with burying embalmed people in air tight caskets, especially with a cement sarcophagus. These bodies, caskets and sarcophagi particles are not being readily released back into nature. Its feels like there is a debit of energy being made from not returning it back to nature, by locking it up.
I always thought it was a bad idea just because of the resources it uses up since the mortuary science has improved. Now I kinda feel like Nature has been cheated and what She has given freely is not being freely returned.
I am glad, though, that more people are choosing cremation and scattering the ashes. Its so much more natural. Now I just have to find out the carbon foot print of cremation, although it will be alot less, I think, then the way some other cultures perform it.
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