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More Filipinos Opt for Cremation?
« on: October 30, 2012, 10:51:59 PM »
By Ferdinand G.Patinio

A senior prelate said that cremation is becoming popular among Filipinos.

Retired Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Oscar Cruz said the reason why many people are choosing cremation over burying their loved ones in the cemetery is because it is more convenient and less expensive.

“It is becoming more convenient to go to a columbarium, where the ashes are deposited, instead of going to the cemetery with the traffic,” he said in an interview.

In the cemetery, the problem is also space.

“There is less and less space that’s why they are now trying to put up this multi-leveled burial sites up to 14 layers, but how do you visit your dead in the 14th floor if there are no stairs?” he added.

Cruz noted that cremation is also cheaper and easier.

‘When the body is transferred from one country to the other, instead of the whole body being transferred, it’s easier and much cheaper to transfer ashes,” he said.

The popularity of cremation, he said, is also the reason why some churches now have columbariums.

However, he said that cremation is not popular especially among Filipino Catholic prelates.

Cruz said that a bishop is usually interred in the burial ground of the cathedral of a diocese.

“It’s a very established custom that in all cathedral churches there’s a burial ground for bishops at the back of the altar and that is where they are placed,” said the prelate.

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Re: More Filipinos Opt for Cremation?
« Reply #1 on: October 31, 2012, 05:23:15 AM »
Perhaps the reason why there is a preference for burial instead of cremation lies on the Christian Doctrine of the Resurrection of the Body. To cite the Catechism of the One, Holy, Roman Catholic Church:

988 The Christian Creed - the profession of our faith in God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and in God's creative, saving, and sanctifying action - culminates in the proclamation of the resurrection of the dead on the last day and in life everlasting.

989 We firmly believe, and hence we hope that, just as Christ is truly risen from the dead and lives for ever, so after death the righteous will live for ever with the risen Christ and he will raise them up on the last day.534 Our resurrection, like his own, will be the work of the Most Holy Trinity:

If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also through his Spirit who dwells in you.

990 The term "flesh" refers to man in his state of weakness and mortality.536 The "resurrection of the flesh" (the literal formulation of the Apostles' Creed) means not only that the immortal soul will live on after death, but that even our "mortal body" will come to life again.



Reference:
Catechism of the One, Holy, Roman Catholic Church
http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p123a11.htm

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