Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "火葬" in Chinese language version.
[L]and prices so high that a burial plot in Tokyo a mere 21 feet square could easily cost $150,000.
Six million of our people were denied proper burial, most of them cremated. Should we willfully continue that which our enemies began?
In conclusion, it must be remembered that there is nothing directly opposed to any dogma of the Church in the practice of cremation, and that, if ever the leaders of this sinister movement so far control the governments of the world as to make this custom universal, it would not be a lapse in the faith confided to her were she obliged to conform.
An Israeli court has decided that cremation is legal in a historic ruling that has angered the country's orthodox community, which believes that it breaches biblical law and offends Jews because it reminds them of ovens used in Nazi death camps.
The subsequent weight of opinion is against cremation and there is no convincing reason why we should deviate from the sacred established method of burial.
Judaism is a tradition which affirms life. It has struggled from its inception against concentration on death and the deification of the human being as exemplified in the Egyptian concern with mummification and the preservation of the body after death.
It should be emphasized that cremation is un-questionably unacceptable to Conservative Judaism. The process of cremation would substitute an artificial and "instant" destruction for the natural process of decay and would have the disposition of the remains subject to manipulation by the survivors rather than submit to the universal processes of nature.
Judaism is a tradition which affirms life. It has struggled from its inception against concentration on death and the deification of the human being as exemplified in the Egyptian concern with mummification and the preservation of the body after death.
[W]e have no ideological conflict with the custom which is now popularly accepted by many as clean and appropriate to modern conditions.
Six million of our people were denied proper burial, most of them cremated. Should we willfully continue that which our enemies began?
An Israeli court has decided that cremation is legal in a historic ruling that has angered the country's orthodox community, which believes that it breaches biblical law and offends Jews because it reminds them of ovens used in Nazi death camps.
The subsequent weight of opinion is against cremation and there is no convincing reason why we should deviate from the sacred established method of burial.
It should be emphasized that cremation is un-questionably unacceptable to Conservative Judaism. The process of cremation would substitute an artificial and "instant" destruction for the natural process of decay and would have the disposition of the remains subject to manipulation by the survivors rather than submit to the universal processes of nature.
In conclusion, it must be remembered that there is nothing directly opposed to any dogma of the Church in the practice of cremation, and that, if ever the leaders of this sinister movement so far control the governments of the world as to make this custom universal, it would not be a lapse in the faith confided to her were she obliged to conform.
