I've preached quite a few funerals, and one trend that bothers me is cremation. It is a pagan concept, though of course most people don't know that, nor would I fight a grieving family over it. But Christians should be buried. They should not be incinerated and put into a pot or oreline. “It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.” One of my favorite places in the world is an old cemetery where the gravestones intentionally face east. Just as the sun rises in the east, so believers wanted burial to testify that they were awaiting the dawning of the last day, when Christ will appear and the dead will be raised. Thus even in death, and especially in an increasingly pagan culture, our bodies and the way we bury them can bear witness to the resurrection. Christians should make use of the opportunity.