Is it safe to be buried underground?

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When we die, we’re usually buried underground. If our bodies get resurrected, won’t we all be stuck in our coffins for eternity, but still permanently alive?
 
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If our bodies get resurrected, won’t we all be stuck in our coffins for eternity, but still permanently alive?
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No, of course not. We don’t know the specifics, but when our souls are reunited with our bodies, we will stand for the Last Judgement and then return, body and soul, to wherever our soul had been previously residing.
 
What Thom18 said. I would add that Jesus’s resurrected body might offer some clues. He could walk through walls, yet still eat fish. Perhaps we all will be able to do that. Also, do you really think something as basic as a coffin could withstand the power of God and the resurrection of the body?
 
The Church says that “The dead shall be raised” or the “resurrection of the dead”, not simply “the coming alive of the dead”.

Ain’t no grave gonna hold my body down!
 
Don’t worry Lady. I shall dig you out!

I’m ahead of all of you! I’m gonna be buried above ground in a Mausoleum. It shall be stocked with non perishable emergency food too. After all, being raised from the dead makes a man hungry 😋
 
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Surely God would have given us a commandment to leave the dead propped up in deckchairs or something if this was the case.
 
Oh! I like it!! Oddly enough, you could probably sell that to people 😂
 
I mean, by that logic, cremation would definitely not be allowed, and we know that the Church says it is, provided of course, that the ashes aren’t scattered, etc. So if cremation is kosher (so to speak), so is burial in terms of the resurrection of the body.
 
I wanted to be proped up with a lampshade over me. I was going to do a push a button, get a random phrase I prerecorded. But my confessor sorta put the nix on that one.
 
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When we die, we’re usually buried underground. If our bodies get resurrected, won’t we all be stuck in our coffins for eternity, but still permanently alive?
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No, it’s perfectly safe. Stanley Spencer’s painting of the Resurrection shows you what it will be like.
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Right. And think of all the people who have been lost at sea, eaten by animals, died in explosions, drawn and quartered, etc., etc., etc. We can be confident that God will work those things out.

I mean, we’re talking about the resurrection of the dead. I don’t think a few planks of wood and six feet of dirt are going to be that much of an obstacle.
 
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When we die, we’re usually buried underground. If our bodies get resurrected, won’t we all be stuck in our coffins for eternity, but still permanently alive?
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We will be a rotting corpse or just bone (probably) by the time Jesus returns. If he can turn that into a glorified body, he can certainly get that body out of the coffin. Look, he needed no help but the Father’s in rolling away the stone sealing his own tomb. Don’t worry. There is nothing to be worried about.
 
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Forgive me my ignorance.

Wasn’t there a time when Cremation was banned full stop?

And why shouldn’t the ashes be scattered?
 
There was a time before the 60’s that restricted cremation, simply due to the gnostic heresy where it is held that the flesh is evil, or disdain for the body. As we are body and soul composites, we can’t take one and leave the other.

Cremation is allowed as long as it is not done in disdain of the body. Scattering is not permitted as it does not show reverence for the body that once held our soul. Cremation is allowed as long as it is done for the right reasons and is interred properly.

As a final note, here is a perspective that may be way out there … If the heavenly elect get reunited with their glorified bodies, it stands to reason that the condemned shall also receive their bodies, but instead of glorified, the body will be disfigured.

I’ve not found much on this, but it makes total sense to me and gives more the reason to trust in the glory of God.
 
The Church once banned cremation because it gave an erroneous idea about death being the definitive end of the body and because the ashes were not in sacred ground,

It changed its stance because cremation was becoming an increasingly common practice. However, the Church still says the ashes must be buried together in one place in sacred ground. Among other things, this encourages loved ones to remember those who have passed with respect.

The article below explains more fully:

www.nytimes.com

Vatican Clarifies the Rules for Cremation: Bury, Don’t Scatter (Published 2016)

The Roman Catholic Church, which removed its prohibition on cremation in 1963, is also urging its members not to store cremated remains at home.
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As others mentioned, the Church had a general ban–it is a properly called a ban, because the Church acknowledged even then it was not itself wrong. Rather various pagan and other materialistic groups used it as a symbol of denying the resurrection of the body so Catholics were forbidden from going along with them. The Church always provided for exceptions to the ban, if done for a good reason. As that kind of bad reasoning became less common, and as more people began requesting it for good reasons, the automatic penalties for it were removed. The Church still favors burial as more fitting.
 
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