Your Questions About Cremation and Burial: Answered

The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

Ascension

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 25 August 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Can I be cremated? Is it okay to donate my body to science? What about the relics of Saints, they aren't buried in the ground?

Last week, Fr. Mike began our discussion on death and burial, especially when it comes to the Catholic Church's teaching on "scattering your ashes." Today, he answers some of the most common questions from the comments of that video and delves deeper into why we should listen to our Mother, the Church, when she is instructing and guiding us in these matters.

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0:00.0	One of the things, shoot, sorry.
0:05.5	Now I messed it all up.
0:07.1	He's falling down.
0:07.9	I don't know.
0:08.9	I need air cut.
0:09.9	Maybe I need air cut.
0:10.9	Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz,
0:11.9	and this is a century reasons.
0:12.9	So I made a video about cremation or scattering ashes,
0:14.6	and there are a lot of questions that came up out of that.
0:16.8	And I thought, that is great.
0:18.3	In fact, truly, I thought the fact that this is a question
0:23.8	that is maybe sensitive to some people,
0:26.9	is question that people might disagree on.
0:28.8	I think it's really, really good,
0:29.9	because one of the things that highlights,
0:31.1	I think in highlights, is that people are thinking about death.
0:33.7	I don't think that as a cultural, generally speaking,
0:36.9	we think about death as much as we ought to.
0:38.9	I mean, it is the one thing every one of us is going to do.
0:42.2	At some point, and the moment of our death, of course,
0:45.6	is kind of a big deal.
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