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*IS* there a religious motivation for treating corpses as sacred? I don't recall any Christian doctrine about corpses. The idea of Christianity is that when someone dies their soul leaves their bodies and goes to heaven, so who cares what happens to the corpse? I know some native Americans believed that corpses were sacred, but is there any modern religion with strong beliefs about the treatment of bodies?
I have never understood the preservation of bodies either. It always seemed like the funeral home industry preying on the emotions/guilt of the families of the departed to me, but maybe that's just me being cynical. Spending thousands of dollars on a casket and a concrete vault and embalming etc. just seems wasteful and silly to me.
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