Cremation query

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Do Anabaptists cremate their dead?
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I haven't heard of it among the conservative Anabaptists. There was a man in my area who gave his body for medical research.
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Biblical Anabaptist wrote:I haven't heard of it among the conservative Anabaptists. There was a man in my area who gave his body for medical research.
Thank you. :up:
Are there other branches that allow cremation?
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I would sat that it is at least strongly frowned on in all of the Mennonite groups with which I have been closely associated.
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MaxPC wrote:Do Anabaptists cremate their dead?
Not that I'm aware of based on any of the funerals I've been to, but there would be no opposition to giving one's body to science or donating one's organs, etc.

A few people here are doing "green" burials (no coffin).
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Nothing prohibiting or discouraging cremation in our MB church. I am booked to be cremated. Back to ashes the fast way.
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Several people in our MCUSA church requested cremation. Most are buried.
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Neto wrote:I would sat that it is at least strongly frowned on in all of the Mennonite groups with which I have been closely associated.
Neto, what is the reason(s) for discouraging cremation in those groups?
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MaxPC wrote:
Neto wrote:I would sat that it is at least strongly frowned on in all of the Mennonite groups with which I have been closely associated.
Neto, what is the reason(s) for discouraging cremation in those groups?
One of the reasons I have heard in this area is that cremation is an attempt to get rid of the body so that it is not available to be raised up for judgement.
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silentreader wrote:
MaxPC wrote:
Neto wrote:I would sat that it is at least strongly frowned on in all of the Mennonite groups with which I have been closely associated.
Neto, what is the reason(s) for discouraging cremation in those groups?
One of the reasons I have heard in this area is that cremation is an attempt to get rid of the body so that it is not available to be raised up for judgement.
I suspect this is probably the main reason. Another is that burning of the body was often used by the persecutors, presumably to destroy the person's opportunity to be raised again? (I hadn't thought to wonder why this method was so often used for 'heretics'.) Or, that it is considered a desecration of the body. (As to methods of killing the 'heretic', another common method was by drowning, and for some reason my people, when they came over from Russia, resisted "burial at sea" where possible. I have heard a family story that one of my relatives is buried somewhere on the beach in New York harbor. They kept the body in a trunk until they got off of the ship.)
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