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Dear LFTP August 30, 2021 · 1:02:37 · 13 min

Dear LFTP: the cremation-versus-burial disagreement

  • How should we resolve our disagreement about burial arrangements?

A listener writes that she wants to be cremated and scattered at their honeymoon spot while her husband wants a full funeral and burial in his hometown two and a half hours away, and she jokes about hoping to die first. The hosts say the land is for the living, nobody visits graves anyway, and this is a nothing-burger: someone should just bend, possibly cremating her and stashing the ashes in his coffin. The conversation riffs through funeral-industry frugality tips from a Missouri pastor, a weekend-at-Bernie's bit about loading the body in a Buick, Iowa law, the anti-biblical history of cremation taboo, and a cannibals-and-sharks resurrection gag. The Secular answer, that her last wishes matter as much as his, is read and mocked.

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