Quandary! Cremation?

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I’m so sorry about your sister and what happened. ❤️

Pre-payment options sound like a very good idea. My geographical parish is a large wealthy parish and might be able to hanlde it better than the parish I attend.

Thank you for your help!
 
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I’m adding a swimming pool too… 😎
 
Thanks Monte!

That’s exactly what I had in mind to do! I appreciate your suggestion.
 
Cruciferi said:
This shall be my Mausoleum.
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What is that exactly? Is it an actual family mausoleum or a chapel? I’m curious. I really would like to know what it is.

Using the gate as scale, it must be enormous!
 
Cruciferi said:
My reasoning for having a Mausoleum and coffin is that on the Last Day I’ll simply throw open the lid and walk outside. 😃 Whereas everyone else will be trying to dig themselves out or need reassembled. It’ll be a most entertaining resurrection 🍿🍿🍿
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So what happens if God resurrects you last? If that happens can we have your popcorn? 🍿
 
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I actually plan to have an army of slaves build me a burial pyramid the likes of which the world has never seen.
 
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Bottom line, the Church urges burial over cremation, and forbids cremation if it is done against the Christian faith.
 
Pretty amazing!

If you read the rest of their website, it also has the cremation spaces that Clare spoke about in her post.
 
Q: What does a skeleton order at a restaurant?

A: Spare ribs!!! 🤣😂😅
 
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How does one cremate “against” the Christian faith???
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Easy, by not treating your body like the temple that it is (with dignity), denying the Resurrection, scattering ashes, trivializing dead bodies, doing out of influence from pantheism, naturalism, nihilism. Basically anything sacrilegious or with reasons that don’t match the faith would be against Christian faith.

Canon 1176 of Canon Law:

The Church earnestly recommends the pious custom of burying the bodies of the dead be observed, it does not however, forbid cremation unless it has been chosen for reasons which are contrary to Christian teaching.
 
This article from the Vatican is a lot to read but covers the subject rather thoroughly:

Instruction Ad resurgendum cum Christo regarding the burial of the deceased and the conservation of the ashes in the case of cremation

and this may be the most relevant part for this discussion:
5. When, for legitimate motives, cremation of the body has been chosen, the ashes of the faithful must be laid to rest in a sacred place, that is, in a cemetery or, in certain cases, in a church or an area, which has been set aside for this purpose, and so dedicated by the competent ecclesial authority.

From the earliest times, Christians have desired that the faithful departed become the objects of the Christian community’s prayers and remembrance. Their tombs have become places of prayer, remembrance and reflection. The faithful departed remain part of the Church who believes “in the communion of all the faithful of Christ, those who are pilgrims on earth, the dead who are being purified, and the blessed in heaven, all together forming one Church”.

The reservation of the ashes of the departed in a sacred place ensures that they are not excluded from the prayers and remembrance of their family or the Christian community. It prevents the faithful departed from being forgotten, or their remains from being shown a lack of respect, which eventuality is possible, most especially once the immediately subsequent generation has too passed away. Also it prevents any unfitting or superstitious practices.
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You are OK. Cremation was OK’d around 1980(?).
Ashes to ashes and dust to dust…
We cannot throw ashes anywhere. We receive them in a plastic container. We can chose a fancier one for extra money. Our Churches have built walls w nitches. They have to be purchased.You can price other cemeteries for cost comparisons.
The sooner you pay for cremation the cheaper the price will be. Check prices locally.
Their home must be blessed. Ashes can be buried in a ground. They have a cement container for them.
Work w creamatorium that has a funeral parlor and walls for nitches. Check prices.iIt can be discounted is creamation and interment happens through same company.Plus, there is an opening the nitch site fee. Keeping ashes in home is OK for awhile. But, by 4 generations, they may not know who is in that box.
Opening a nitch or digging grave goes for around $500.00. Now! Prices can climb.
Hope this helps Very wise on your part.
Pagans had funeral pyres. That’s why Christianity went for burial. The body is a Temple of the Holy Spirit… But, our flesh falls off to dust. Most bones =dust. Nostrodamous’s skull was intact but thin after a century in the grave.
Everything dissolved to dust.If we’re burned in a fire=dust. God can bring fire victim back, He can do all things.
I’m Christs love
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My mother died in 2015 and she wanted to be cremated. She said not to spend a lot of money so I found a crematorium that did the cremation for $1000. I took her ashes to the church myself for the Funeral Mass. Purchased a double niche at another Catholic Church (my parish doesn’t have a Columbarium) for $3000. I bought a double niche because that is where I want my cremains to be inurned as well. A single niche would have been $1500.

The Church provided the urn. I was required to use theirs. I took that urn to the crematorium and they put my mother’s ashes in it.

It’s a good idea to do price comparisons in advance and pre-pay if you can. The local funeral homes wanted $4500 and up just to do the cremation. The cemetery where my father was buried wanted $4500 to open my father’s grave to place my mother’s urn in the same plot.

My mother had a $5000 life insurance policy thru AARP which paid for everything.

Also, most churches with a Columbarium will donate niches for the indigent. There was a Catholic man near my parish in a nursing home. He had no living relatives and no money. When he died my parish paid for his cremation and the Church where my mother is inurned donated a niche for him.
 
Thanks for your advice, Anne, I’ll talk to our parish Monseigneur about getting some help.
 
You’re welcome. I forgot to mention that my parish Monsignor helped me to get a price for the niches that I could afford. He called the pastor of the other church and told him I could not afford the price I was initially quoted.
 
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