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  • #31
    Originally posted by John Reece View Post
    I like that idea, but I suppose it would be easier to do in the wilderness of Alaska without stinking up a residential or recreational area ― unless you mean having your body buried in the woods, which I would do if the law permitted such, and if I did not already have a cemetery plot for my wife and I bought and paid for in the corner of the cemetery that abuts my woodland homestead.

    Our bodies are to be placed there in plain pine coffins. That's as near to natural as local law will allow.
    I like the old Jewish practice of putting a body in a crypt until it is a skeleton. Then the bones would be dealt with.
    Micah 6:8 He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

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    • #32
      Originally posted by hansgeorg View Post
      Christian burial, please!
      What is Christian about burial. It is practices by many different cultures.
      Micah 6:8 He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

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      • #33
        Originally posted by Jedidiah View Post
        I like the old Jewish practice of putting a body in a crypt until it is a skeleton. Then the bones would be dealt with.
        I think that was only done for a fairly short period of time.
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        • #34
          Originally posted by Sparko View Post
          In my will, I have a request that a preacher do the service and that he preach the gospel to every one there.
          When I am asked to do a funeral for somebody, I always ask if there are objections to me preaching the gospel. If they are opposed to me preaching the gospel, I very politely recommend they find another preacher.
          The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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          • #35
            Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
            When I am asked to do a funeral for somebody, I always ask if there are objections to me preaching the gospel. If they are opposed to me preaching the gospel, I very politely recommend they find another preacher.
            yeah what better time to preach the gospel? Most funerals I have attended just remember the deceased and comfort the living. Singing hymns and praying, sure, but not really preaching the gospel. I want a freaking sermon at my funeral, teaching that if they don't have Jesus, then they are lost and that if they want to, come forward right then and there and be saved.

            Of course most of my family is already saved, but I have friends who I have been after for years. If they show up at my funeral, I want them preached at one last time!

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            • #36
              Originally posted by One Bad Pig View Post
              I think that was only done for a fairly short period of time.
              I still prefer it to most practices. I do not think it is possible in today's world. Space limitations,
              Micah 6:8 He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

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              • #37
                Originally posted by Jedidiah View Post
                I still prefer it to most practices. I do not think it is possible in today's world. Space limitations,
                IIRC they did it BECAUSE of space limitations.
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                • #38
                  Originally posted by One Bad Pig View Post
                  IIRC they did it BECAUSE of space limitations.
                  Perhaps, but today a crypt large enough to enter, for each dead body, is not a realistic possibility.
                  Micah 6:8 He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

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                  • #39
                    Originally posted by Sparko View Post
                    yeah what better time to preach the gospel? Most funerals I have attended just remember the deceased and comfort the living. Singing hymns and praying, sure, but not really preaching the gospel. I want a freaking sermon at my funeral, teaching that if they don't have Jesus, then they are lost and that if they want to, come forward right then and there and be saved.

                    Of course most of my family is already saved, but I have friends who I have been after for years. If they show up at my funeral, I want them preached at one last time!
                    You could also write a poem or something for the occasion (as a complement, I mean). One last laser-guided reach, from the deepest of our soul.

                    Perhaps I'll try writing something like that in the future.
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                    • #40
                      Originally posted by Sparko View Post
                      yeah what better time to preach the gospel? Most funerals I have attended just remember the deceased and comfort the living. Singing hymns and praying, sure, but not really preaching the gospel. I want a freaking sermon at my funeral, teaching that if they don't have Jesus, then they are lost and that if they want to, come forward right then and there and be saved.

                      Of course most of my family is already saved, but I have friends who I have been after for years. If they show up at my funeral, I want them preached at one last time!
                      When my 2nd eldest son died a few months after his 31st birthday, I organised the funeral along the lines I had done for my youngest son's funeral. Except this time I acted as MC. At the end of my short reflection I just spontaneously threw in "My family believes in the resurrection, we have a hope!" Those couple of words seemed to have a major impact. In private people asked questions...

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                      • #41
                        Originally posted by Bisto View Post
                        You could also write a poem or something for the occasion (as a complement, I mean). One last laser-guided reach, from the deepest of our soul.

                        Perhaps I'll try writing something like that in the future.
                        I actually thought about recording a "last time I'll be able to speak to you about Jesus" thing to play at my own funeral.
                        The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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                        • #42
                          Originally posted by Jedidiah View Post
                          What is Christian about burial. It is practices by many different cultures.
                          But not always in Christian ways.

                          For instance, some Pagans burn the body and some even omit the Dies Irae.
                          http://notontimsblogroundhere.blogspot.fr/p/apologetics-section.html

                          Thanks, Sparko, for telling how I add the link here!

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                          • #43
                            Originally posted by hansgeorg View Post
                            But not always in Christian ways.

                            For instance, some Pagans burn the body and some even omit the Dies Irae.
                            Not all Christians are Roman Catholics.
                            Micah 6:8 He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

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                            • #44
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                              • #45
                                Originally posted by Jedidiah View Post
                                Not all Christians are Roman Catholics.
                                Noted, Orthodox have other parts in their Moelieben than the Dies Irae ... btw, did it surface I meant among other things "not a Protestant burial"?
                                http://notontimsblogroundhere.blogspot.fr/p/apologetics-section.html

                                Thanks, Sparko, for telling how I add the link here!

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