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More and more Americans say they want to be cremated when they die. Would you consider it?
More and more Americans say they want to be cremated when they die. Would you consider cremation?
AMAD ALLEN, Dayton: “No. I just want my body to be shown like it was. I can’t see myself destroying my body like that.”
MARIE MILLER, Greenville: “Yes. I think it’s just easier. I think that’s what I’m going to do. Who wants to lie there and have everyone filing by looking at them?”
ED MYERS, Beavercreek: “I don’t think I would choose cremation, but I don’t have a good reason why. I’ve just never really considered it. I’m not planning on dying anytime soon.”
BILL MILLER, Urbana: “Yeah. It’s a cheaper way to go.”
SHANE PORTER, Portsmouth: “No. I’d rather have the traditional way of doing things.”
Comments
By Lea
March 26, 2010 8:01 AM | Link to this
Yup. That’s been my choice for years.
By Lori Osborne
March 26, 2010 8:27 AM | Link to this
I definitely want to be cremated and my ashes spread over the Smokey Mountains. Plus, I am going to donate my body to the Anatomical Gift Program at Wright State. My mom did this, and it is the best way to have zero funeral expenses! They cremate the body also and either give family the ashes or they can inter them at the cemetery on campus!
By fortressdayton
March 26, 2010 9:32 AM | Link to this
Funeral homes are a racket that play upon the bereaved’s feelings. If you believe in a soul, then its flame is not maintained in the dead vessel. Preservation of corpses is wasteful, creates toxic waste and should go the way of the pharaohs. We are not this body.
By Ashes to Ashes
March 27, 2010 12:36 AM | Link to this
I am an organ donor - whatever doesn’t go to improve someone else’s quality of life will be donated to science, and if there’s anything left, cremate it. Fortressdayton, you put it very well - we are not this body. My husband, on the other hand, half-jokingly wants to have his ashes compressed into a diamond. It can be done, and the diamond can be mounted into jewelry. I personally find that a little creepy. “Oh, I like your ring!” “Thanks, it is my late husband!”
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