26 Quotes About Cremation

Cremation is the refusal to put a corpse to good use.

Everyone is no-one-to-be.

The shorter one’s life, the longer the list of loved ones one will not have had to bury.

If anyone at my funeral says 'it's what he would have wanted', I'll kick the lid off my coffin and throttle them. Or, if I've been cremated, I'll flip the lid off the urn and become a dust storm in their eyes. Only you know what you truly want. Anything else is presumption skewed through personal agendas.

We can do a cremation here, at the house?" I ask. "We built a fire," my father says. "Obviously. And I put the whole cat in the fire?""There isn't a whole cat," my mother says."What is there?""Parts of cat," they say together."Bones?" I ask."Mostly. And some fur. And some face.

To be knav'd out of our graves, to have our skulls made drinking-bowls, and our bones turned into pipes, to delight and sport our enemies, are tragical abominations escaped in burning burials.

Handling a dead body is not a repugnant or frightening experience and, somehow, it helps to accept the fact that the soul of that person has gone if you treat the body with reverence and respect before it is finally disposed of by cremation or burial.

The world is running out of good places for ashes.The Jade Rabbit