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My mother has Altzheimer’s so I can’t discuss her wishes with her.
My father is buried in a cemetery a long way from where I live. There is room in the grave for my mother, but the cost of transporting her body is going to cost more money than I can easily raise.
It would be practical to have her cremated and then her ashes taken to be buried along with my father, but I’m very troubled about doing (a) what my mother would wish and (b) what the Church teaches.
I know the Church was against cremation until relatively recently. Has Her position changed because of lack of burial space and practicalities in the modern world or has the Church reviewed the issue and come to a different conclusion based on theological thinking?
My father is buried in a cemetery a long way from where I live. There is room in the grave for my mother, but the cost of transporting her body is going to cost more money than I can easily raise.
It would be practical to have her cremated and then her ashes taken to be buried along with my father, but I’m very troubled about doing (a) what my mother would wish and (b) what the Church teaches.
I know the Church was against cremation until relatively recently. Has Her position changed because of lack of burial space and practicalities in the modern world or has the Church reviewed the issue and come to a different conclusion based on theological thinking?