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Mindfulness practice for changing times: How to maintain ballast in times of upheaval.Four decades of yoga in Salt Lake City: Reflections on the history and changing landscape.But if it is burdensome or troubling for any reason, then perhaps they shouldn't have to. Why add to the burden? If someone wants to arrange a balloon launch of the deceased's ashes into inner space, that's fine. While I wouldn't go that far, I do understand what he was getting at: that the survivors shouldn't have to do something they're uncomfortable with or ethically opposed to.
"It's non of their business what happens to them whey the die," he said to me. I spoke about this with funeral director Kevin McCabe, who believes that decisions concerning the disposition of a body should be mad by the survivors, not the dead. I imagine it is a symptom of the fear, the dread, of being gone, of the refusal to accept that you no longer control, or even participate in, anything that happens on earth. People who make elaborate requests concerning disposition of their bodies are probably people who have trouble with the concept of not existing. It makes little sense to try to control what happens to your remains when you are no longer around to reap the joys or benefits of that control.
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