I have looked at this, http://www.lifequestanatomical.com/bodydonation.php
I hope it is OK to mention I am a Christian and have little concern for my ''discarded tent'' I will leave behind. My wife and I both lost a brother in law this year. Mine seemed to be a lost sheep. He was cremated and the service was in the firehall where he had served as an EMT.
My wife's was active in his church. His wife had a very showy funeral in a huge church. Many of our current funeral practices seem to be a misuse of resources to me.
I was upset at first when my mother died and my brother and sister didn't want to have a grave side service. Thinking about it more. The funeral was in a chapel in the basement of the church. A grave side service would have meant extracting many elderly people from the basement, loading them in cars, and then driving to the cemetery, unloading the people, packing them in the chapel there, loading them back in the cars, driving back to the church, down to the basement for the dinner. Instead, we walked down the hallways to the social room for the dinner. Our mother was gone. I really don't see that the trip to the cemetery would have honored our mother any more. Skipping it was a kindness to many that loved our mother.
I hope it is OK to mention I am a Christian and have little concern for my ''discarded tent'' I will leave behind. My wife and I both lost a brother in law this year. Mine seemed to be a lost sheep. He was cremated and the service was in the firehall where he had served as an EMT.
My wife's was active in his church. His wife had a very showy funeral in a huge church. Many of our current funeral practices seem to be a misuse of resources to me.
I was upset at first when my mother died and my brother and sister didn't want to have a grave side service. Thinking about it more. The funeral was in a chapel in the basement of the church. A grave side service would have meant extracting many elderly people from the basement, loading them in cars, and then driving to the cemetery, unloading the people, packing them in the chapel there, loading them back in the cars, driving back to the church, down to the basement for the dinner. Instead, we walked down the hallways to the social room for the dinner. Our mother was gone. I really don't see that the trip to the cemetery would have honored our mother any more. Skipping it was a kindness to many that loved our mother.
