AndrewJRenko wrote: » Is cremation environmentally friendly, with all the gas and all? I don't like the idea of a graveyard, but what's the alternative?
Bigbagofcans wrote: » You're going out the same way you came in
Deebles McBeebles wrote: » Certainly hope not. My mother will be long dead by then.
Built at a cost of €2.4m, it was completed after a nine-year planning process. The building includes a chapel, which can seat 140 people, with video screens where tributes can be played. There will also be a small chapel/hospitality area with seating for 60 where people can remain on after the cremation. Mr Cranwell said: “We will help put together these tributes and families can also have webcam facilities which will enable families to have a ceremony transmitted anywhere in the world.”
Mercy Defeated History wrote: » Shannon Crematorium is now operational. So this is the future of death. You will be cremated while tributes air on video screens and your friends in far-flung countries watch a live stream on their iPhones.
Hammer89 wrote: » Let's call a spade a spade: graveyards won't last, will they? We're a godless generation, us Milennials. Has there ever been another generation as detached from religion as us? Potentially not, and if that's the case, which it might well be, then how is this not going to have a knock-on effect for traditional, Christian burials? Funeral and burial preferences have changed quite a lot. There was a time when cremation was a bit bold in the eyes of the church, a bit un-Christian-like, but now 33% of dead people are opting for this. This highlights a detachment even in non-Millenials, so how different could the landscape be in 40 or 50 years, when it's our time to go? I appreciate that it's popular for the ashes of deceased people to be buried in graveyards to this day, but there's a chance we'll move further away from this in time, as people grow less sentimental over the idea of being buried with their loved ones. It's a lovely idea and I've nothing wrong with it obviously, but I don't think my generation will draw the same warmth and solace from it as our parents, grandparents and great-grandparents. Who knows lads, but what I do know - or at least think - is that graveyards are f*cked. I'm not sure they'll physically go anywhere, but I do think the business side of them will suffer in the long run.
seamus wrote: » I don't particularly see an issue with graveyards; we all rot and feed the worms either way. Though we should be encouraging the use of materials which degrade more quickly and discouraging the use of embalming fluids. This stuff of pumping corpses full of preservatives and sticking them in strong and treated wooden boxes is perverse. You're going to bury them forever a couple of days later, why do they need to be robust?
randd1 wrote: » Heard of this idea years ago of planting seeds with the body, and using the nutrients from decomposing body to grow trees or crops. Not a bad way to go.
The Davestator wrote: » Fun Fact Graveyards are in church grounds Cemetery's are not in church grounds
Deebles McBeebles wrote: » Has anyone mentioned wolves? I would happily donate my body to be a meal for a pack of wolves.
Kevin Finnerty wrote: » Id love to be made into a fireside companion set or a knife holder for the kitchen. Or made into a sandwich spread like Branston pickle or Ballymaloe Relish.
"Recomposting" -- which advertises as more environmentally friendly than traditional funeral practices -- is a process where a human body is quickly decomposed using heat-loving microbes and beneficial bacteria.
....... wrote: » I knew a fella who had a viking burial (wasnt in Ireland), basically his family put him on a little boat going out into a lake that was ignited when it had reached a certain distance.
mordeith wrote: » I'm not sure how true this is but I was told that the heat in a crematorium isn't enough to reduce the body to the fine ash you get in the end. I think the bones survive and they have to be pulverized?
....... wrote: » I knew a fella who had a viking burial (wasnt in Ireland), basically his family put him on a little boat going out into a lake that was ignited when it had reached a certain distance.I do like the burial at sea option discussed here - is there any companies offering to facilitate it? I always thought Id like to offer my remains off for plastination - that way I could be used for either medical teaching or in a museum/art display. Maybe Ill opt for getting my brain cyrogenically frozen for wake up at some future point in a cloned body (hopefully a better one than my own) and just let the bag of meat be disposed of.
Gravelly wrote: » I often wonder about that when I see it on TV - I'd say it would take a lot of heat to break down a body, especially considering it is 60% water - you have to wonder if you'll be out fishing on the shore a few days later and pull Erik or Sigrid out in a big charred lump.
Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: » Not sure. Probably not, as I’m sure it’s such a rare request.
