After An Atheist Dies

[Astonished]

Religious don't always want a service. My father's wish, before he died was to be cremated and have his ashes scattered over a golf course. He didn't want a service at all. So we didn't give him one. He went straight from the VA nursing home (he was 57) to the funeral parlor and then to be cremated. Came back four days later inside a ziploc bag (yes... he was in a baggie), which was inside a velvet draw string bag, which was inside a small wooden box.

Why don't some religious, your father included, want a service?

The level of religiosity can vary, as can the actual type of belief held, so maybe there wasn't the 'traditional' view held by most co-religionists in his case.

Organ donation, body research, and whatever else leads to my remains being the least wasted they can be. Grind me up into dog food or something like Diogenes the Cynic wanted if that's the cheapest method of disposal.

A good looking corpse might fetch considerable interest on Craigslist . . .

Only if they did it for porn, not private usage. If they're going to do stuff with me after, I would want it to be shared with as many people as possible, for posterity.