Waiting time to cremate after passing away?
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I see your point, but one could argue that intention is not relevant for its own sake, but is only relevant insofar as it is indicative of a particular action. In the example of your preparation of dead bodies, saying this:Belindi wrote:It shows how important intention is for moral behaviour, Steve.
"This at least would ensure they could not breathe and so were properly dead."
indicates that you might consider the action of preparing a person for burial when they're not yet dead, and killing them.
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Steve3007 wrote: ↑July 9th, 2020, 5:46 amI see your point, but one could argue that intention is not relevant for its own sake, but is only relevant insofar as it is indicative of a particular action. In the example of your preparation of dead bodies, saying this:Belindi wrote:It shows how important intention is for moral behaviour, Steve.
"This at least would ensure they could not breathe and so were properly dead."
indicates that you might consider the action of preparing a person for burial when they're not yet dead, and killing them.
That is a reasonable inference but as a matter of fact it didn't happen.
Good intentions are not enough. Good action also needs knowledge and judgement not to mention skill. Don't these four cover all actions?
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You can buy funeral and burial services in advance. This is called "pre-need." I will go with a grave in the ground. When I lived on the Pacific Coast I liked the idea of burial at sea. Being a military veteran I could choose that route if desired. But now that I live in the mountains away from the shore, I am feeling more like having a regular earth burial.
When you get cremated, your bones are left over. Then they have to run your bones through a crushing machine which pulverizes them into dust. That seems creepy to me.
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It looks like the only poster to talk about death is found in the following from Gee:
First I am not sure what the distinction is here between an event and a process. So if we could produce some definitions that would be helpful.death is not an event; it is a process. Just like birth is not an event; it is a process. Most people don't consider this,
But just for fun, I am not sure what it means to say that death is a process. And of course that all depends on how we define death. Which I would like to to hear input about.
Maybe if you think that your death is entailed by your birth (since we are mortal) then maybe life and its experiences and challenges can be seen as a preparation for or overcoming of anxieties or dilemmas about death which seem to be lifelong processes (especially if death means cessation of being; but if after death there is an answer to those seekings then they would not be lifelong processes and therefore "death" in the sense of mental activities in its anticipation [a set of processes] would cease). But if death is cessation of being then of course that event "death" at which being ceases is not a process. It is the termination of a process (namely consciousness; if consciousness is a process). Likewise, whether birth is a process or event depends on how you define "birth". If it means the point at which a fetus passes through the birth canal and "enters the world" and is viable (i.e. not stillborn) then that is a discrete event. If you want to include all the circumstances that lead to (and follow?) and include the event and view all of change in the universe as some ultimately incomprehensible process then, sure, birth is just one fleeting state of affairs in a larger conitnuous stream of change. But then death and our own death is subjectively prominent whether objectively (and in terms of value) indistinguishable from all other processes or not. So it is worthwhile to talk about it.
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My condolences.
If you and your mom "think it was one week," then you should wait one week.
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Sorry for my late reply, I did not receive notifications and had completely forgotten about this question on here.
Needless to say Angel Trismegistus , my mom and I did wait the one week.
It was not a question of whether to or not, it was mostly my interest to know the reasons and educate myself on this.
My dad was laid out in my paternal house in an (open) coffin for the whole week, which was at first strange but turned out to be a beautiful process to slowly let go. And the cremation and ceremony were equally beautiful and peaceful.
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