Curious Question

[kabira]

Hindus living in USA or even Europe, when die, are they cremated like in India?? I was in USA for 6 years, one of my friends roommate was murdered in Detroit downtown and I know he was cremated in India. Not sure how residents manage. Someone told me its very expensive to get cremated in USA.

[Nova]

I don't think anyone does open cremation here but there are several crematoriums in the US and it's cheaper than burial (what many Christians do). The funeral for burial can cost upto $10,000...cremating is much cheaper under $1500, especially if done directly without involvement of funeral homes. I have donated my body for medical research... they can do whatever they want!

[coffee_rules]

One of friend's 3-month old baby passed away unfortunately. He went to a funeral home for a wake and then to a crematorium for a cremation funeral. I guess a lot of christians also opt for a cremation for financial reasons. It was not a open cremation, but highly mechanized within indoors.

[Rajiv]

U never read about this Nri Wins Right To ‘Open’ Cremation In Uk An Indian-origin social and spiritual leader in the UK today won the right to be cremated in an open air funeral pyre, according to Hindu rituals, ending a prolonged legal battle. In a landmark judgement, the Britain's Court of Appeal granted Davender Ghai, 71, the right to be cremated after his death in an open-air funeral pyre. Delighted at the ruling, Ghai said the verdict had "breathed new life into an old man's dreams. I always maintained that I wanted to clarify the law, not disobey or disrespect it." Since open air cremations anywhere outside a crematorium have been prohibited in the Britain under the 1902 Cremation Act, many Indian-origin families in Britain take bodies of their deceased relatives to India for cremation according to Hindu rites. Ghai has been campaigning for the right to be cremated according to his Hindu beliefs for several years and sought legal redress. His bid for Britain to allow open-air funeral pyres was opposed by the Law Secretary on the ground that people might be "upset and offended" by pyres and "find it abhorrent that human remains were being burned in this way." In a statement to the court, Ghai had said: "I will not deny my claim is provocative, least of all in a nation as notoriously squeamish towards death as our own. "However, I honestly do not believe natural cremation grounds would offend public decency - as long as they were discreet, designated sites far from the urban and the residential areas," Ghai said. In 2006, the Newcastle City Council had forbidden him from organising Hindu-style cremation. http://www.sikhsangat.com/index.php?/topic/50585-nri-wins-right-to-open-cremation-in-uk/ Lot of goras prefer cremation as it cheaper and there is a trend to collect the ashes as well..I think burial occupies land unnecessarily

[Sir john]

[DomainK]

I don't think anyone does open cremation here but there are several crematoriums in the US and it's cheaper than burial (what many Christians do). The funeral for burial can cost upto $10,000...cremating is much cheaper under $1500, especially if done directly without involvement of funeral homes. I have donated my body for medical research... they can do whatever they want!

10000$???? Death is so costly? :yikes:

[EnterTheVoid]

10000$???? Death is so costly? :yikes:

About 8 - 10 K here.

[kabira]

$10000 for funeral...man thats out of this world....LOL

[gaurav92]

:yikes: 10k ? dying there.

[Rajiv]

10000$???? Death is so costly? :yikes:

Used to hear a cruel joke where a visitor to the states was told by a relative, do any thing but don't get sick or die there, else marne ke baad bhi mar jayega

[b555]

I have donated my body for medical research... they can do whatever they want!

:hatsoff:

[Rajiv]

We have that option here as well on drivers license to donate body for research