Today, cremation is an increasingly popular form to throw away the deceased. This is true even in the Christian world, which for many years resisted cremation but has received greater acceptance of cremation over the past century.
In Christian countries, cremation is disliked because of the Christian belief in the physical resurrection of the body and as a mark of the differences from the Iron Age European Pagan religions, which usually cremate their dead. It even makes a crime punished by death by Charlemagne in 789 for this reason. Beginning in the Middle Ages, rationalists and classists began advocating cremation. In medieval Europe, cremation was performed only at certain times when there were many bodies dumped simultaneously after the battle, after the epidemic or during famine, and there were dangers that threatened the spread of the disease. Later, Sir Henry Thompson, Surgeon for Queen Victoria, was the first to recommend the exercise for health reasons after seeing the cremation equipment of Professor Ludovico Brunetti of Padua, Italy, at the Vienna Exhibition in 1873. In 1874, Thompson founded The Cremation. British society. Society faces opposition from the Church, which does not permit cremation in consecrated lands, and from governments, who believe that the practice is illegal.
Cremation was forced into the laws of England and Wales when the eccentric Welsh doctor William Price attempted to cremate the son of his deceased baby, Iesu Grist, in Llantrisant in January 1884 and was prevented from being processed by the locals. Then tried at Cardiff Assizes and was liberated on the grounds that cremation was not against the law, he was able to perform the ceremony (the first in England in modern times) on 14 March 1884 with pagan prayers. On 26 March 1885 the first modern English law cremation took place, namely Mrs. Jeanette Pickersgill from London, "famous for literature and science" by the Cremation Society in Woking, Surrey. This change of attitude encouraged the formation of a cremation company in England. One was first established in Manchester in 1892, followed by Maryhill, Glasgow, in 1895. A Parliamentary Act in the United Kingdom for the Regulation burned human remains, and to allow the funeral authorities to establish a crematorium >, The "Cremation Act" finally passed in 1902, removing all ambiguities.
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For most of its history, the Roman Catholic Church has banned cremation. It is seen as the most sacrilegious act against Christians and God, not just blasphemy but physically expressing unbelief in the bodily resurrection. In 1963, the Pope lifted the cremation ban and in 1966 enabled the Catholic priests to preside over the cremation ceremony. The Church still officially prefers the traditional burial of the deceased. Regardless of this preference, cremation is now permissible as long as it is not done to declare a refusal to believe in the resurrection of the body. [1] Until 1997, Church regulations were used to establish that cremation should be performed after the funeral. Such funeral services are carried out in the same way as traditional cemeteries to the point of commitment, where the corpse is brought to the crematorium rather than buried. Funeral service is done after cremation is complete.
In 1997, the funeral rites were modified so that church funerals could occur when the body had been cremated before the ashes were brought to church. In such cases, his ashes are placed in a jar or another worthy vessel, taken to church and placed on a stand by the paschal candle. During church services and inauguration ceremonies, the prayers referring to the body are modified, replacing the reference to the deceased "Bodies" with "Earthly Remains."
Since the lifting of the ban, even with official preference for funerals, the Church has become increasingly open to the idea of ​​cremation. Many Catholic graves now provide columbarium niches for permanent cremation housing as well as providing special sections for burial of cremation remains. Columbarium niches have even become part of the church building. Our Lady of the Angels cathedral in Los Angeles, California, has a number of niches in the crypt cemetery. However, church officials still tend to prevent this practice because of concerns over what will happen to a niche if the parish is like closing or deciding to replace the current building.
The church needs a disposition of ash which means that the ash must be buried or buried in the right container, like a jar. The church does not allow the spread of ashes. Allowing them at home is permitted, but requires the permission of the bishop, although some Catholics have done so without searching for it. Funeral in the sea is permitted, as long as the ash is put into the sea in a sealed container.
Traditional Catholics have objected to the practice of allowing cremation, regarded by sedevacantis as one of the many reasons why the post-Vatican II church ceased to be a genuine Catholic Church.
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Eastern Orthodox Church
The Eastern Orthodox Church forbids cremation. Exceptions are made for circumstances where it can not be avoided as when civil authorities demand it, during an epidemic or similar cases are required. When a cremation is chosen deliberately for no reason deemed good by the church, he is not allowed to be a funeral in church and may also be permanently expelled from liturgical prayers for the dead. While in Orthodoxy there is no direct connection between cremation and the dogma of general resurrection, it is seen as a harsh treatment of the body after death and is thus viewed harshly.
Protestant Church
Protestant churches accept and adopt cremations earlier than Catholic churches, and cremation is also more common in Protestant countries than Catholics. Usually cremation is favored in cities and towns, where rare earth and cemeteries are overcrowded, while traditional cemeteries are favored in the countryside where burial graves are available. The highest frequency in the EU is found in the Czech Republic, neighbors to Poland where reverse cremation after the fall of communism almost disappears. The difference between the Catholic version of the Christian Lutheran is evident in the cremation relationship. Cremation is somewhat more common in parts of Protestant Germany, compared to Catholic passages. In Nazi Germany, Heinrich Himmler discovered the "funeral ceremony nazi", which ended with cremation. This is used for example at the Marshall Field State Cemetery Erwin Rommel (who has been forced to take his own life, as revealed after the war).
Protestant churches gradually agreed to cremation after the First World War and Spanish Flu. During the time between world wars, the development of modern crematorium also helped distinguish Christian cremation from Pagan rituals burning the body with wood burning. The first crematorium in Stockholm, Sweden, was built in 1874. In Finland, Helsinki the Lutheran Union Parish built the first modern crematorium in 1926 which is still in use.
In Scandinavia, about 30 to 70 percent (in big cities up to 90 percent) of the dead were cremated around the mid-1980s. However, in recent years high frequencies have peaked and fallen; one explanation is immigration from Muslim, Catholic and Orthodox countries.
In the Lutheran Scandinavian doctrine, the ashes must be handled with the same dignity as the earthly remnants. They will be buried in a jar in a grave or sown on sanctified land, "dust back to dust," and not kept at home or thrown out in a way that is not dignified. Some littoral parishes also have a sanctified sea area where ash may be sprinkled. Also the unmarked "warning ruins" (tens of thousands of people buried inside the 10-50 public graveyards with general warnings) have become common ways of burial. Often officers recommend cremation to the mourners. Cremation has also seen the reappearance of a traditional Scandinavian family tomb, where a single grave may now contain dozens of jars of family members in generations. Many Scandinavians prefer to have their ashes buried with family members and loved ones.
In Finnish, the word tuhkaus (incineration) is used for Christian cremation, while polttohautaus (burial by arson) refers to the Pagan ritual on burning.
In the American Episcopal Church, cremation has been received so much that many parishes build columbaras to their churches, chapels and gardens.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormonism)
The leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) have said that cremation "is not recommended"; but the church provides instructions for dressing up the deceased before cremation. In the past, Apostle Bruce R. McConkie wrote that "only under the most extraordinary and unusual circumstances" would be cremation consistent with the teachings of the LDS.
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