Feedback please on beliefs re burial & cremation

[Moriarty]

My mother and I were discussing this today and I thought it a good idea to put it to the forum members. If you believe in after-life, what are your thoughts on choice between burial and cremation? Do you feel it makes a difference when connecting with loved ones left behind?

Just an interesting thought that i haven't seen approached before. Looking forward to your feedback. I am neutral regarding this...how about you?

[Apopohis Reject]

Originally Posted by Moriarty

My mother and I were discussing this today and I thought it a good idea to put it to the forum members. If you believe in after-life, what are your thoughts on choice between burial and cremation? Do you feel it makes a difference when connecting with loved ones left behind?

Just an interesting thought that i haven't seen approached before. Looking forward to your feedback. I am neutral regarding this...how about you?

What about those who do not believe in after-life?

[Moriarty]

Originally Posted by Apopohis Reject

What about those who do not believe in after-life?

This is more for those who do believe in it.

[Andras]

I do not think it is an issue of cremation versus burial. Do what you want to spend. I for one, want cremation because I loath to spend my money (or the money I left for my loved ones for an expensive burial).
As for esoteric considerations the astral and mental bodies disengage and the astral completely disintegrates after 3-days. This is the reason the traditional 3-day wait for the burial/cremation. I think that is a wise policy to follow, IMHO.
The mental body stays (in the metal realm(!) - that's what they call spirit) and perhaps can be contacted (if the circumstances are right) regardless if you are buried OR cremated.

Originally Posted by Moriarty

My mother and I were discussing this today and I thought it a good idea to put it to the forum members. If you believe in after-life, what are your thoughts on choice between burial and cremation? Do you feel it makes a difference when connecting with loved ones left behind?

Just an interesting thought that i haven't seen approached before. Looking forward to your feedback. I am neutral regarding this...how about you?

[Moriarty]

Originally Posted by Andras

I do not think it is an issue of cremation versus burial. Do what you want to spend. I for one, want cremation because I loath to spend my money (or the money I left for my loved ones for an expensive burial).
As for esoteric considerations the astral and mental bodies disengage and the astral completely disintegrates after 3-days. This is the reason the traditional 3-day wait for the burial/cremation. I think that is a wise policy to follow, IMHO.
The mental body stays (in the metal realm(!) - that's what they call spirit) and perhaps can be contacted (if the circumstances are right) regardless if you are buried OR cremated.

Thank you for this information Andras.

[Moriarty]

It's also come to my mother's attention that the numbers are beginning to stack up and show definite sides..eg...

Those with loved ones buried and not cremated seem to have more contact from them both physically and psyhically.

I'm beginning to wonder though if that could be a false count, in the fact that, perhaps those who trust more in contact from the other side are more likely to choose burial over cremation?

[MiBeloved]

It is mostly an issue with the persons who are left behind, as you put it. Actually most people leave this world reluctantly and at the time of dying people usually do not indulge in the fantasy about a great afterlife and so on, simple because their experience at that time is that of a diseased crippled failing physical body.

Usually they do not feel some glorious body at that time and thus they are not thinking that people are left behind. In fact most people think that they are being taken away from this physical world, which was for the most part the center of their life and attention for the previous so many years.

But once the person is separately permanently from a body, and cannot return into it as they usually did after sleeping and dreaming, that person is no longer in a position to worry about whether that dead body is cremated, buried or left in the open for animals for forage.

It is the persons who are left behind in this world, who become concerned about the method of disposal. Usually those persons want that to happen along the lines of their religious beliefs. As for example say a Christian relative who feels that the body needs to be in a coffin to be resurrected by Christ, or a Hindu relative, who feels that the body should go to Gaya in India or to Hardwar, to have the body cremated in a religious ceremony with prayers which are supposed to convey the deceased to the promised land hereafter.

As far as communication goes with that deceased person that happens just as it was happening before when the person was on this side with the exemption of the physical body not being used as an amplifier. Without that person's physical body the persons on this side are left with their intuition and psychic connection with that person. Everything psychological which was that person continues after the physical body dies. And thus there can be communication, though it is psychic only.

The condition of disposal of the physical body of that person does not affect this. It is affected by the way persons on this side focus. If the relatives on this side are mostly physically focused, then there will be little communication but if any have some psychic ability, there can instant be communication.

[Moriarty]

Originally Posted by MiBeloved

It is mostly an issue with the persons who are left behind, as you put it. Actually most people leave this world reluctantly and at the time of dying people usually do not indulge in the fantasy about a great afterlife and so on, simple because their experience at that time is that of a diseased crippled failing physical body.

Usually they do not feel some glorious body at that time and thus they are not thinking that people are left behind. In fact most people think that they are being taken away from this physical world, which was for the most part the center of their life and attention for the previous so many years.

But once the person is separately permanently from a body, and cannot return into it as they usually did after sleeping and dreaming, that person is no longer in a position to worry about whether that dead body is cremated, buried or left in the open for animals for forage.

It is the persons who are left behind in this world, who become concerned about the method of disposal. Usually those persons want that to happen along the lines of their religious beliefs. As for example say a Christian relative who feels that the body needs to be in a coffin to be resurrected by Christ, or a Hindu relative, who feels that the body should go to Gaya in India or to Hardwar, to have the body cremated in a religious ceremony with prayers which are supposed to convey the deceased to the promised land hereafter.

As far as communication goes with that deceased person that happens just as it was happening before when the person was on this side with the exemption of the physical body not being used as an amplifier. Without that person's physical body the persons on this side are left with their intuition and psychic connection with that person. Everything psychological which was that person continues after the physical body dies. And thus there can be communication, though it is psychic only.

The condition of disposal of the physical body of that person does not affect this. It is affected by the way persons on this side focus. If the relatives on this side are mostly physically focused, then there will be little communication but if any have some psychic ability, there can instant be communication.

Very impressive MiBeloved and thank you for taking the time to offer me such an informative explanation. It all makes sense to me. I found myself nodding to some of the keys and thinking how they fit to my mother and others.

Cheers for that.