re: At the risk of offending, cremation is a lot more dignified than burial, and

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Admittedly, ground burial can be somewhat artistic even while a bit irresponsible, but internment in one of those popular tenement-style mausoleum drawers is downright grotesque.

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I understand we put chemicals into the body, but they still decompose and provide nutrients to plants and various other plant life, whereas burning the body takes a high degree of heat which doesn't magically just appear, it has to be transformed from another energy source.