"Cremation" entry in Catholic Encyclopedia: https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04481c.htm
> By the fifth century of the Christian Era, owing in great part to the rapid progress of Christianity, the practice of cremation had entirely ceased.
> The Christians never burned their dead, but followed from earliest days the practice of the Semitic race and the personal example of their Divine Founder. It is recorded that in times of persecution many risked their lives to recover the bodies of martyrs for the holy rites of Christian burial. The pagans, to destroy faith in the resurrection of the body, often cast the corpses of martyred Christians into the flames, fondly believing thus to render impossible the resurrection of the body. What Christian faith has ever held in this regard is clearly put by the third-century writer Minucius Felix, in his dialogue "Octavius", refuting the assertion that cremation made this resurrection an impossibility: "Nor do we fear, as you suppose, any harm from the [mode of] sepulture, but we adhere to the old, and better, custom" ("Nec, ut creditis, ullum damnum sepulturae timemus sed veterem et meliorem consuetudinem humandi frequentamus" — P.L., III, 362).
You aren't a burden to your family only because you can't work. You are a burden when you are demented, have Alzheimer's, can't shit alone, have to wear diapers, can't move alone. That's when someone *has* to assist you on a daily basis. And sometimes it's a family member.
This is narcissism and cruelty. This is what many people seem to endorse.
No, I actually don't know that, I've seen plenty of people advocate for lowering life expectancies down to the mid 50s which isn't even past the point of being capable of moderate *physical* labor.
>You aren't a burden to your family only because you can't work. You are a burden when you are demented, have Alzheimer's, can't shit alone, have to wear diapers, can't move alone. That's when someone has to assist you on a daily basis. And sometimes it's a family member.
I can agree there, but that's not what I was initially assuming. A lot of people would say the moment someone needs any assistance at all, even just familial companionship they are being a burden.
Well, if it means your son or daughter has to be every day with you until you die, that's asking for quite a lot. That means their life is on hold for 1-10 years. We are not talking about someone having a temporary injury, like a broken bone, right?