Atheist Funerals: What's The Point?

[NoMayo15]

slang must be one confused individual. but I see him as an individual who's seeking answers before he steps out...

Nah man. He thinks he already has all the answers. A true idiot ... sad, really.

 

[the cac mamba]

If you are an atheist, what is the point, if any, of planning a funeral for your future demise, or attending that of your loved ones as funerals have it's origins and foundation as religious ceremony?

Do you have rituals for processing of the body (attire, cleansing, makeup etc) or is it donated to science?

Is cremation a preferable method because of the religious connotations associated with burial? Are the ashes kept in a jar or is it discarded?

Does the idea of "paying your respects" to a lifeless body seem rather irrational to an atheist as no known conception of a spirit or afterlife is celebrated within atheist circles?

Please provide valid reasons as to why an atheist would attend or would prefer for themselves a funeral.

let me spin this on you

why do christians cry at funerals, knowing that their loved one is in heaven? shouldnt they be jumping for joy?

 

[SpacelySprockets]

let me spin this on you

why do christians cry at funerals, knowing that their loved one is in heaven? shouldnt they be jumping for joy?

Yea because everyone makes it into heaven

 

[NoMayo15]

Yea because everyone makes it into heaven

Well who at a funeral is thinking their loved one went to hell?

 

[SpacelySprockets]

Well who at a funeral is thinking their loved one went to hell?

Someone whos loved one died from a double murder suicide

 

[NoMayo15]

Someone whos loved one died from a double murder suicide

 

[mbewane]

Breh probably thinks that funerals didn't exist before the Bible

 

[Tommy Knocks]

Pretty sure funerals aren't a christian/religious invention. I swear man.

We even have native american burial grounds FYI.

 

[ryshy]

theres some dumb nikkas out here man

 

[Higher Tech]

Someone whos loved one died from a double murder suicide

 

[Slang]

You think people only have funerals because of religion? Like a city full of atheists would just leave their dead in the streets because why bother, there is no god? You can't be serious....

Isn't that what a funeral is, a religious ceremony?

So you justify practicing religious ceremonies with the alternative being leaving dead bodies in the streets? SMH

As stated, why have a funeral when their body can be donated to scientific endeavours or cremated and dumped in the ocean or under a tree? Why attend a funeral if you don't believe in it's necessity in preparing the body for an afterlife?

 

[Slang]

Pretty sure funerals aren't a christian/religious invention. I swear man.

We even have native american burial grounds FYI.

Are you truly implying that Native's regards to death and preparation of the body is not based on their view of the afterlife?

 

[Slang]

Nah man. He thinks he already has all the answers. A true idiot ... sad, really.

Obviously. Thinking already implies I have an idea about the answer. Try thinking sometimes, it works.

 

[Tommy Knocks]

Are you truly implying that Native's regards to death and preparation of the body is not based on their view of the afterlife?

Obv it is. The concept of an afterlife came well before christianity.

 

[NoMayo15]

Why attend a funeral if you don't believe in it's necessity in preparing the body for an afterlife?

Wait.... is that what you believe is the purpose of a funeral? It's absolutely necessary to prepare a body for the afterlife? What, God won't accept a non-prepared body? Pure comedy

Try thinking sometimes, it works.

If you followed your own advice, this thread wouldn't exist.