For a person to request cremation for themselves or another person is to go against the Bible and all of sacred history. Burial is the only biblical method as we await the resurrection, and no amount of reasoning about burial space, the sanitation of this method, and the high costs of funerals can change that. The question of cremation is not debatable, for God has spoken the final word. As Christians we are not permitted to do with our bodies as we please. Cremation Conclusions 1.
Cremation is of heathen origin and therefore is unscriptural and non-Christian.
Any practice, regardless of its nature, that is contrary to God's Holy Word is to be shunned by all conscientious believers. Cremation removes the healing process that takes place naturally through a Christian burial. Usually, the four pounds of charred remains are sprinkled, in Hindu fashion, on some streams of water, or scattered by airplane to the four winds. Some people divide the ashes among the relatives so that each may have a part of their loved one's remains. Others just leave the ashes with the mortician who will probably thrown them in the city dump.