Quotes About Cremation

My wife said to me, "I want to be cremated." I said, "How about Tuesday?"

The crematory fire is the only way our bodies can escape them. It's the absolute death.

What a crazy way to be buried, he thought as he hunted. Get your body burned up and then poured into a box that looked like a library book, like your relatives could check you out and take you home for a couple of weeks. Would there be an overdue penalty if they were late bringing back the dead?

We no longer have death in our culture: the dead become abstractions, statistics, companies will take charge of the relationship that we can have to our own dead. In 2, 3 days the cremation is done, we can forget, the question is settled and the dead is only a memory. This is problematic, because we risk falling first into what Freud calls melancholy, that is to say the impossibility of mourning because we no longer have an object to mourn.

We were having tea with my mother-in-law the other day and out of the blue she said, "I've decided I want to be cremated." I said, "Alright, get your coat."

Yes, like watching someone flog a dead horse into obedience," Settembrini scoffed; to which Naphta replied that since for our sin God had visited our bodies with the gruesome ignominy of rot and decay, there was no indignity in the same body's receiving an occasional beating—which immediately brought them to the topic of cremation.

The last time somebody was cremated, his ashes were sprinkled from a crop duster. We all ran for cover. We liked him fine, but we didn't want him all over our good clothes.

I think you should automatically donate your organs because that would turn the balance of organ donation in a huge way. I would donate whatever anybody would take, and I'd probably do the cremation bit.

I've changed my mind. I've decided that at the end I want to be cremated and my ashes scattered over someone I don't like.

In nuclear war, all men are cremated equal.

Men who fall in battle against the Others must be burned, or else the dead will rise again as their thralls.

A friend of mine hated her husband so much that when he died she had him cremated, blended him with marijuana, and smoked him. She said, "That's the best he's made me feel in years."

More than a hygienic method of disposing of the dead, cremation enabled lovers and comrades to be mingled together for eternity:

In fact, Shelley was cremated in accordance with local by-laws designed to prevent the spread of plague, which ruled that anything washed up by the sea must be burned on the shore.

I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract.

Burn me," she said finally. "Turn me to ash." And so we did, though the ashes of her body were not what I'd expected. They weren't like ashes from a wood fire, silky and fine as sand. They were like pale pebbles mixed with a gritty gray gravel. Some chunks were so large I could see clearly that they'd once been bones.

purification in fire. public cremation

his body was cremated and the leaders of the IWW divided the cremated remains into small envelopes that had Hill's picture on one side and his "last will" on the other. The envelopes containing instructions to scatter the remains were sent to people in South America, Europe, Asia, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and every state in the United States except Utah because Joe had said that he "didn't want to be found dead" there.

I want to be cremated so people won't come to worship at my bones.

My husband wanted to be cremated. I told him I'd scatter his ashes at Neiman Marcus - that way, I'd visit him every day.

I don't want to spend a fortune on my cremation urn, but I really do want to look nice at my memorial service.

When he was dead, his body was cremated. The remains were thrown in a ditch marked "Common Grave Number One — unclaimed ashes 1930–42 inclusive.

before being stabbed, strangled and cremated; men hanged with dogs and horses in sacred groves.

I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract.