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In article <7c3hli$igf$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, kayla191@my-dejanews.com
writes
>Cremation
>
>Throughout the ages the many races, each with its own customs, traditions and
>mystical and religious backgrounds, have devised numerous methods for
>disposing of discarded physical vehicles. These have varied from setting out
>the corpses to be devoured by wild animals, such as hyenas, crocodiles,
>tigers and vultures; burial, with the body in various postures, in graves,
>caves, tombs, catacombs, sepulchres and pyramids; burning on funeral pyres or
>other forms of cremation; and finally embalming to preserve the corpse
>against decomposition.
>
>Several of these methods are still practised, but burial in Mother Earth is
>probably still the most commonly used method. This is most unhygenic because
>so many deaths are caused by infectious diseases, and in burying these
>corpses the soil becomes contaminated by the causal germs and viruses, which
>may remain contagious for many years. Thus the burial of millions of the
>infected corpses has contaminated large parts of the Earth's surface. By far
>the most effective, hygienic, and also the 'neatest' way of disposing of
>these physical remains is by cremation. The exact technique applied, and
>whether open fires or electrical equipment is used, is immaterial. What is
>important is that cremation is increasingly gaining ground over other
>practices, and this may in future at least contribute towards purifying the
>soil, and reducing sources of infection.

Burial is a very environmentally sound idea. Burial recycles ones
remains back in to the bio-sphere. Cremation destroys ones remains.
Burial no more putrifies the soil than the death and decomposition of
any other animal, be it a gnat or elephant. 

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Gnome 11