(173) The fate of the ashes
At this stage, when a person dies, the body is cremated, and then a cemetery is bought to store the ashes in an urn or small coffin.
If the poor family cannot afford a cemetery, the ashes are stored in the funeral home.
I have quite a bit of a problem with this approach.
I don't know when or when the cemetery was raised.
However, it is very popular now.
Take, for example, the city we live in.
The cemetery was built on Sifeng Mountain, which is more than ten miles outside the city.
The original Sifeng Mountain was a tourist attraction, and I visited there 30 years ago.
Although the cemetery can also be regarded as a landscape, no one has ever visited it as a scenic spot, and the cemeteries, tombstones, give people a gloomy and cold heavy feeling.
The cemetery of our city occupies a mountain, and it can be inferred from this that the cemetery of the whole country and the whole world can occupy how many mountains and how much land?
If it is so permanently occupied, will there still be a place for the living?
A cemetery in our city is 13,000 yuan, and if it is a family cemetery, it will cost tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, which is relatively expensive.
A cemetery is more than 10,000 yuan, and if we deduce from this, what is the price of cemeteries in the whole country, and even in the world?
Moreover, when it comes to Qingming, the entrance of the cemetery is crowded with people, and it is inconvenient to enter and exit.
For the living, not only do they have to buy a cemetery for the deceased, but also buy wreaths, burnt paper and other offerings, how much energy does it have to expend, and how much money does it have to spend?
And with such a big deal, what can the deceased get?
The living steal life, and the dead are gone.
A man dies like a lamp goes out.
When a person dies, he has no sense of anything, he knows nothing, he gets nothing.
What kind of heaven, hell, it's all deception, and the dead can't go to heaven.
What a cemetery, an urn, it's all in vain, and the dead can't survive.
Besides, the deceased doesn't even have a life, what else does he need?
How much significance does it make to do such a big job?
The most important thing is that the living person is comforted spiritually, expressing his remembrance of the dead, and making it for the living, and there is no other meaning at all.
Within a few decades, the cemetery was still there, and there were living people who went to pay their respects.
So, how many years from now? Will the cemetery still be there, and will there still be living people to pay their respects?
Therefore, the fate of ashes at this stage cannot be regarded as the best destination.
So, what is the best place to return ashes?
The great men have told people with their own practice.
Premier Zhou Enlai, General Secretary Deng, didn't they just have no cemetery, didn't keep the ashes, scattered the ashes into the river, and integrated into the arms of Mother Earth?
This fate of ashes is the safest, best, and eternal destination!
Therefore, after a person dies and is cremated, he does not need any urn, nor any storage, nor any cemetery.
Scatter the ashes into the rivers and bury them in the earth.
This saves a lot of money and can do more beneficial things for the family and the country.
In this way, how much land can be saved, planting trees, cultivating and sowing, the earth will be more beautiful and rich.
This allows the living to no longer work for these things, and have more energy to devote to life and participate in national construction.
Doing so does not mean that the living have no feelings for the deceased and no remembrance.
What is the best memorial to the dead?
You can do a little bit of a commemoration.
The main thing is not to forget the deceased, let him live forever in his heart, turn grief into strength, live well, work hard, fulfill the last wishes of the deceased, make life better, and make the world more brilliant!
Perhaps, don't go to the cemetery, don't store it, scatter the ashes into the rivers and bury them in the earth, which is an inevitable trend of historical development!
(Tuesday, October 23, 2012)