Reply #6: It shouldn't be necessary to dress up and preserve an empty shell [View All]

I never did understand the whole "saving the body" process. All religions teach that the true person is the soul, not the physical body, and yet so many religions go to town puffing up the shell with chemicals, dressing it up, putting makeup on it (my favorite part :puke:), and putting it in not one, but two boxes to keep the decomposition from seeping out, all so family and friends can gaze at the gussied-up body at the wake and murmur "They (the undertakers) did a nice job, didn't they?"

Again, I say: :puke:

When my uncle died, my aunt delivered the clothes he was to be buried in. A little while later the funeral director called her back to tell her she forgot to bring a pair of underwear.

Underwear.

For a dead body.

:wtf:

This change can't come soon enough.