Similarly, when we leave this world and enter the next world, it is as though we are leaving the temporary world of our mothers womb, being born, and entering the true world which is the next world. The Thinkers conception of life was limited by his imagination, which was, in turn, limited by his own experience. In the same respect, our conception of the next world is limited by our imagination, which is in turn limited by our own experience in this world. The idea of cremation results from this faulty understanding of life and death. Burial is compatible with the truth that the life of a person does not end.
Life is eternal.
Burial results in purification of the body, and the plantingof the seeds in a persons soul through which he will grow at the time of the Revival of the Dead. According to Jewish law, if a person insists that he not be buried, we may not listen to him. The law is even more restrictive regarding a request to burn a body. In the Navi Amos 2, it states that the third sin of Moab was that they burned the bones of the king of Edom. The Talmud in Sanhedrin daf 82 brings down that the scalp of Yehoyakim was taken and burned.