TO THE AIR
Not burial at all
but instead a great freeing,
flesh handed over to the
birds and elements,
dead lives widely scattered
and confined to no single ground.
Or the hunger of fire,
earth gods dusted with ashes
and sky gods smudged with our smoke,
the wide circle covered
and all of us everywhere.
–Tim Miller, Bone Antler Stone, 2018, 2024
Out of Babel Books 
I plan on cremation myself and so does Mrs B. There will be no one to remember us anyway, so why waste resources on a plot or even a gravestone.
LikeLiked by 1 person
How bleak!
I don’t wish to be flippant, but I will remember you, and so will the book enthusiasts of the Internet. And in all seriousness, though you have no children you may have friends and family who would like there to be a record of your existence.
I once read a pamphlet by a Christian who tried to establish that only burial, and not cremation, was the “godly” way. He did it mostly by a references to the practices of the Old Testament, where a person was “laid with their fathers.” However, I tend to think that in the New Covenant, what happens to the body matters less because we know that we will be raised with Christ regardless of how we died or the condition of our bodies.
LikeLiked by 1 person
It is bleak, I agree.
I love when people try to prove things Biblically that are strictly cultural. I usually ask them when they are taking a second wife and leave it at that.
I don’t think our old body matters at all, because we will be getting new bodies at Resurrection, no matter when you believe that is.
LikeLiked by 1 person
The thought of being entombed in ground, in one place, is abhorrent to me.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Oh interesting!
LikeLiked by 1 person