And the churches opinion - Not that I care

Church warns against alternative burials
Posted by: Honey on Friday, February 18, 2005 - 11:01 AM
Events, Gatherings & Rituals "Grieving and remembering requires rituals and concrete places," said conference president, Cardinal Karl Lehmann. "Foregoing structured mourning and remembering of the dead makes it harder to come to terms with the loss."

"Green funerals": His concerns refer to the increasing changes to burial traditions that have taken place across Germany in recent years, and specifically the trend towards anonymous burial -- burying urns containing ashes in unmarked parts of cemeteries without headstones -- as well as "green burial," the increasingly popular new-age way of laying the dead to rest often described as a more ecological choice.

These alternative ways of dealing with the dead also include scattering ashes in what are known as "peaceful forests." According to the church, the practice is a throwback to a pagan, pre-Christian age -- and therefore firmly frowned upon.

I think they just want to keep getting paid for their cemetary plots and preacher services. Last I knew God made the Earth and I don't need a priest to talk to him