Let’s Talk Ashes To Ashes

One reason that the Plandemic was so successful, is that the West’s elderly are completely unable to cope with the fact of death. Instead of being viewed as a transition or at least an inevitability… a test of character either way… they were quite happy with the idea of ending the lives of everybody else in order to guarantee a few more years of suffering for themselves.

They have still not made peace with death… because they refuse to believe it’s even possible.

Most Americans today are choosing cremation – here’s why burials are becoming less common

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By David Sloane, 22 July 2022

The National Funeral Directors Association has predicted that by 2035, nearly 80% of Americans will opt for cremation.

I’m not surprised. Heck, I plan it for myself, because I don’t want my corpse to get used by PfizerCorp for incubating a bioweapon or being rebooted as a NATO zombie a la the movie Universal Soldier, or something. I’m serious, too! No way in HELL I’m leaving my body to “science”. They’d patent my DNA to sue my mother.

Concerns about modern ghoulism aside, cremation is typically an atheist endeavor. It’s a question of souls, you see. We are meant for immortality, therefore the notion of a hard stop offends us at a very deep level, therefore we erect memorials of various types. Defying death is the natural instinct of those who hope, with the aid of Christ Our Savior, to conquer death.

The atheist has no such “illusions”. Disposal of dead flesh is best done clinically with no emotional attachment or wasted resources, because feeding the eternal appetite is more important than religion or tradition or all those other culture-trappings that are never worth more than a museum ticket to the curious.

When the first U.S. indoor cremation machine was opened in 1876 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the creator and operator, Francis LeMoyne, was severely criticized by the Catholic Church. The new method of disposal was viewed as dangerous because it threatened traditional religious burial and society’s sense of morality and dignity.

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About 1875 the Doctor became interested in the subject of cremation, and in order to show his faith in it as a proper means of disposing of the dead, he in 1876 built a crematory a short distance from town [on his own land]…

For reference, he died in 1879. And yes, was cremated there.

Before the days of political abolitionism Dr. LeMoyne was a member of the Presbyterian Church, but when goaded to madness by the oppressions of slavery he felt that the church did not come up to what he conceived to be its duty, and he withdrew. Some have supposed, on account of his withdrawal from the church, and from his views on the cremation of the dead, that he had cut loose from his Christian moorings, and had drifted away out upon the shoreless sea of infidelity. He maintained that the burning of the dead was wholly and entirely a secular and sanitary measure, altogether outside of any religious considerations. The disposal of the dead, he maintained, should be made entirely dependent upon the safety and comfort of the living. Those who knew him best, and were most intimate with his views, are very free to assert that he never lost confidence in the great doctrine of salvation through faith in the merits of the atonement offered by the blood of Christ.

That could be a story of today’s Antifa goon. “Yeah, I used to attend church until it didn’t enthusiastically support my political demands, so I bailed. I’m still spiritual, just not religious, which is why I try to replace religious traditions with secular, scientific Progress.”

And the proof of that, is that LeMoyne co-founded the Washington Female Seminary.

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Less than 100 years later – in 1963 – English writer Jessica Mitford wrote the bestselling book “The American Way of Death” as a way to educate Americans about what she viewed as the awful commercialization of dying, death and commemoration. After a strong criticism of funeral directors, cemeterians and other associated professions, she ended with a plea for cremation.

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Jessica married her second cousin Esmond Romilly, who was killed in World War II, and then American civil rights lawyer Robert Treuhaft, with whom she joined the American Communist Party and worked closely in the Civil Rights Congress. Both refused to testify in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee.

Support for my “cremation is attractive to atheists” theory grows!

Resting bitch face circa 1937.

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However, as late as 1970, according to figures from the Cremation Association of America, only about 5% of American chose the method. In 2020, more than 56% Americans opted for it.

So what has led to such a dramatic shift today? As an American historian who wrote “The Last Great Necessity: Cemeteries in American History,” following that up almost 30 years later with “Is the Cemetery Dead?,” I know that people are choosing cremation for different reasons, depending on their circumstances.

Here are three main ones:

Let me guess: the elderly are so unwilling to confront death, and the young are so indoctrinated into believing that dead people don’t matter, that cremation is the quickest, most painless choice.

1. Funerals and ground burials are expensive
Although figures differ depending on the source, families are spending an average of over US$8,000 on funerals, ranging from $6,700 in Mississippi to just under $15,000 in Hawaii, according to the World Population Review.

That compares with $1,000 to $2,000 for a direct cremation, in which the crematory or funeral director doesn’t provide any services beyond the actual cremation of the body, as the blog Parting.com, which compares the pricing of funerals and cremations, points out.

However, many survivors don’t choose to do the least costly cremation. The National Funeral Directors Association noted that for a funeral with a cremation, the median cost was over $6,000 – certainly a savings, but not the enormous amount many websites proclaim.

Additionally, this is not a new development: Direct cremation was far cheaper than a full burial in 1960 or 1990, too.

The author disproved his own theory! It’s not about the money!

2. Environmental costs

Some people are increasingly upset by the environmental costs of a burial. A conventional burial necessitates the body being embalmed, usually with formaldehyde…

No. Anybody who would torch grandpa in order to feel good about Gaia, was never going to honor the dead regardless.

Besides, a REAL environmentalist would feed Grandpa’s corpse, and her own, to vultures, hyenas or other all-natural carrion disposal tools. You can’t fully love Gaia until a gator shits you out somewhere in the Everglades.

(Shh. Let’s see if any environmentalists fall for that.)

3. Fewer Americans belong to a church

A growing number of younger Americans in particular are not tied to the religious institution where their grandparents and parents may have had a service after their death or from which funeral corteges would have left for the cemetery.

Consistent with my theory but the decline in membership, while dramatic, is insufficient to explain the preference increase for cremation.

While admitting upfront that there are legit reasons for a believer to choose cremation, the popularity is because people have lost the connection between this life and the next. They don’t understand why the dead should be honored. This isn’t an organization membership thing… this is a logical consequence of a humanist, materialist, reductionist worldview.

So what if Soylent Green is made out of people? If they’re dead and hygienically processed, what’s wrong with protein?