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In the Catholic case, somewhat contrary to the reputation they’ve picked up in their spats with the more Sola fides types, it is apparently the thought that counts. It used to be forbidden(until 1963, I think?); now it’s allowed so long as it does not imply or involve a denial of the ressurection of the dead; belief in ‘return to nature’ type stuff deemed pantheistic or pagan, or otherwise step on the metaphysical toes of a standard burial.
(Even in cases where this isn’t the official position it often seems to be the underlying sentiment or at least the pragmatic de-facto response to…special interrment cases…
It isn’t a pleasant thought; but a fair few people are well beyond the ‘looks like he’s just resting until the bodily resurrection of the dead’ stage when their body is recovered, even with every (arguably corpse-mutilating) fix-up trick in the mortician’s book. Fire victims, most obviously, are often substantially cremated unless just at the periphery and killed by smoke inhalation; and the various lines concerning explosive and heavy equipment hazards that can send you home in a lot of small boxes are not without their grain of truth.
One doesn’t hear, from even the extremists on the issue, that dying in a nasty fire, or coming home in the form of the part of the probability distribution they managed to collect after you caught a big IED, makes you an egregious dinner ineligible for bodily resurrection; though you might we’ll see handling of whatever remains are available as though they were a body, rather than an ash urn.)
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Free skulls for all?
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