Food expires. The date at which it does so is at the bottom of the packaging. In fact, everything expires, even the universe will cease to be one day. The human being is among the many things that expires, but the human being also has sentience, which means that a person knows that they are going to die someday. As such, many people start planning ahead, some order wholesale urns in lieu of caskets.
There is no escaping death. It comes for everyone and everything and at any time. There is nothing in the world that can stop it. It takes and it takes and it gives neither an inch nor a care as to who it is taking. It does matter if a person has a family who needs them. Death has never discriminated. Color, creed, or class, all are equal and all equally die.
Human try everything in their power to hold on for as long as possible. Many try to extend the natural lifespan, expending resources to take pseudoscientific pills and treatments under the belief that doing so means not dying. Being healthy does extend the natural lifespan, but dying is not always natural. Accidents and murders happen.
But some people do not try to extend life, merely to leave a legacy. For many people, a legacy means descendants, sons to carry on a family name and daughters to birth those who carry on the bloodline. To others, legacy means personal greatness, to achieve something so profound that their name is remembered even hundreds of years after shuffling off the mortal coil.
Across the world, different cultures have different funerary rites for the dead. The common thread between all of them is the dead are respected, even if they did nothing in life to earn such esteem. In many cultures, the corpse is interred in the ground, returned to the earth.
Living can be done with reckless abandon, lived from only from moment to moment. But barring a sudden death, dying is done slowly. The body deteriorates over time. But that time gives a person the chance to get their affairs in order, to make it easier for loved ones that remain.
Aside from being a logistical nightmare, a funeral is an expensive one. The venue must be paid for. Religious figures must be given a stipend. Then there is the coffin. The coffin is a wooden box that is going to into the ground. It serves other purpose other than to go into the ground with a dead body inside of it and yet it costs a lot of money. Even after the funeral, upkeep of the grave has to be paid for. An urn is much cheaper.
An urn is also easier to store than a coffin. Coffins go into graves and graves cost money to buy and maintain. But an urn can be placed just about anywhere.
Dying is not about a grand funeral or a leaving a legacy. It is about passing on from this world and maybe on to another. But planning ahead makes things easier for those left behind.
There is no escaping death. It comes for everyone and everything and at any time. There is nothing in the world that can stop it. It takes and it takes and it gives neither an inch nor a care as to who it is taking. It does matter if a person has a family who needs them. Death has never discriminated. Color, creed, or class, all are equal and all equally die.
Human try everything in their power to hold on for as long as possible. Many try to extend the natural lifespan, expending resources to take pseudoscientific pills and treatments under the belief that doing so means not dying. Being healthy does extend the natural lifespan, but dying is not always natural. Accidents and murders happen.
But some people do not try to extend life, merely to leave a legacy. For many people, a legacy means descendants, sons to carry on a family name and daughters to birth those who carry on the bloodline. To others, legacy means personal greatness, to achieve something so profound that their name is remembered even hundreds of years after shuffling off the mortal coil.
Across the world, different cultures have different funerary rites for the dead. The common thread between all of them is the dead are respected, even if they did nothing in life to earn such esteem. In many cultures, the corpse is interred in the ground, returned to the earth.
Living can be done with reckless abandon, lived from only from moment to moment. But barring a sudden death, dying is done slowly. The body deteriorates over time. But that time gives a person the chance to get their affairs in order, to make it easier for loved ones that remain.
Aside from being a logistical nightmare, a funeral is an expensive one. The venue must be paid for. Religious figures must be given a stipend. Then there is the coffin. The coffin is a wooden box that is going to into the ground. It serves other purpose other than to go into the ground with a dead body inside of it and yet it costs a lot of money. Even after the funeral, upkeep of the grave has to be paid for. An urn is much cheaper.
An urn is also easier to store than a coffin. Coffins go into graves and graves cost money to buy and maintain. But an urn can be placed just about anywhere.
Dying is not about a grand funeral or a leaving a legacy. It is about passing on from this world and maybe on to another. But planning ahead makes things easier for those left behind.
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