Robert Bush (the funeral director who is accused of failing to bury/
cremate rather a lot of bodies) is in the news.
The trial is full of testimony from relatives saying how upset they are
at being given the wrong ashes, etc. I find it hard to sympathise all
that much, as I think the soul of the departed and their memory is far
more important than their physical remains.
Is there something in Christianity to justify all the upset?
Is there something in Christianity to justify all the upset?No, I think Christians would agree with you that the dead body is
Robert Bush (the funeral director who is accused of failing to bury/
cremate rather a lot of bodies) is in the news.
The trial is full of testimony from relatives saying how upset they are
at being given the wrong ashes, etc. I find it hard to sympathise all
that much, as I think the soul of the departed and their memory is far
more important than their physical remains.
Is there something in Christianity to justify all the upset?
On 28/07/2026 14:23, GB wrote:
Robert Bush (the funeral director who is accused of failing to bury/
cremate rather a lot of bodies) is in the news.
The trial is full of testimony from relatives saying how upset they
are at being given the wrong ashes, etc. I find it hard to sympathise
all that much, as I think the soul of the departed and their memory is
far more important than their physical remains.
Is there something in Christianity to justify all the upset?
It did upset me when I was reading the heart wrenching testimonies yesterday.
Even for the Christian, when someone dies, there is immense sadness that they're gone. Yes, you can believe that the soul has departed, and all
you have left is the corpse, but the corpse is the physical resemblance
of the person, and to think that that body has been desecrated just compounds the grief.
My mum died in 2011, less than a couple of weeks away from her 80th. She
was old, and it was easy to acknowledge she had lived her life. I
believe she's gone to a happier place, but I was totally caught out by
how it hit me, and I couldn't work properly for 3 weeks.
I became quite depressed after my mother died. I think that's prettyAnd how would you have felt if you had been denied the opportunity to bury/cremate her because you were given someone else's body?
common.
Many years after my mother's death, it actually occurred to me that I
could have asked for the ashes and had them interred in the churchyard
in East Anglia where her mother is buried, with a small plaque or
something marking the place. Not-a that it matters for me, but I think in retrospect that any of my relatives who went to see my grandmother's
grave might have appreciated it.
On 29/07/2026 09:31, GB wrote:
I became quite depressed after my mother died. I think that's prettyAnd how would you have felt if you had been denied the opportunity to bury/cremate her because you were given someone else's body?
common.
God bless,
Kendall K. Down
On 29/07/2026 09:31, GB wrote:
I became quite depressed after my mother died. I think that's prettyAnd how would you have felt if you had been denied the opportunity to bury/cremate her because you were given someone else's body?
common.
I have no way of knowing if they were the right ashes, but I can't sayEveryone is different. I think I would be annoyed if given the wrong
I'd be awfully bothered if they weren't. It's not like I have a matching
set.
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