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[VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com>]

I agree with that.  For me wanting to have some
connection to where ancestors were buried makes a
difference, don't know if I could get by with doing
that in a cemetery. As a sometime genealogy hobbyist,
I  am aware that elaborate burial customs have been
beneficial to genealogists and historians, but that is
just a downside to a pragmatic approach.
Van Dell



--- Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com> wrote:

> 
> On Jan 10, 2008, at 7:06 AM, VAN DELL JORDAN wrote:
> 
> > Rather than reuse graves after 15 years, it seems
> a
> > better way is cremation.
> 
> Cremation was my plan for a long time. If one has
> access to sufficient  
> land, I think it makes more sense to just wrap the
> corpse in a sheet,  
> put it in the bottom of a hole, cover it up and
> plant a tree. Some  
> would say why waste a sheet.
> 
> It takes a lot of energy to cook a body down to
> dust.
> 
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