In cemetaries, Why are the dead buried east and west ?
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The dearly departed are buried in National Military cemetaries East or West to signify Honorable Military service and East is to represent their "sunrise" in the afterlife.West, however was reserved for those foreign soldiers that died while prisoners,and are buried west .I don't know if the burial tradition applied in the military is the same tradition for civilian burials. Hope this helps u.
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All of them.  Oh, and the word is 'cemetery'.  How do think the cemetery would look if only half were buried and the other half sitting on their gravestones?  Yikes!
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The fact is that there is no Bible command for or against either burial or cremation. Well in the Bible the pronounced dealing with the dead one was Burial! Increasing numbers of people have been turning to cremation to reduce the cost of burial! So in case you too are concerned!\n\nWhat Is the Scriptural View?\nIn a pronouncement against “the king of Babylon,” the prophet Isaiah said: “You have been thrown away without a burial place for you.” (Isaiah 14:4, 19) Should the scattering of ashes be compared to such a case of humiliation? No, for there is no reference to cremation and the preservation or the scattering of the resulting ashes.\n\nJesus Christ spoke of the earthly resurrection of the dead that will take place during his Millennial Reign when he said: “All those in the memorial tombs will hear [my] voice and come out.” (John 5:28, 29) However, that a specific grave is not necessarily required to resurrect a person is borne out in another prophetic description of the resurrection. Revelation 20:13 states: “The sea gave up those dead in it, and death and Hades gave up those dead in them.” So, what matters is not where or how a person ‘returns to dust.’ Rather, it is whether he is remembered by God and is resurrected. (Job 14:13-15; compare Luke 23:42, 43.) God certainly does not need impressive tombs to help him remember people. Cremation does not prevent a person’s resurrection. And if the scattering of ashes is done with a proper motive and without false religious ceremonies, it would not be incompatible with the Scriptures.\n\nActually, modern cremation is somewhat comparable to the actions of the men of Jabesh-gilead after they rescued the bodies of King Saul and his sons from the Philistines. They took the bodies to “Jabesh and burned them there. Then they took their bones and buried them.” (1 Sam. 31:12, 13) Faithful David did not consider their burning the corpses as shameful. It was part of a respectful disposing of the dead.—2 Sam. 2:4-7.\n\nAdditionally, the Bible plainly shows that it matters not whether a dead body is returned to dust rapidly by fire or gradually by decay. Either way God’s words are true: “For dust you are and to dust you will return.” (Gen. 3:19) It certainly is not as if God needs a mummy in order to resurrect a person. The apostle Paul taught that a person resurrected to heaven will be given a new body, so that he is “changed” from the fleshly body that disintegrated. He showed that ‘God gives to each one a body just as it pleases him.’ (1 Cor. 15:35-49) It will be similar with those resurrected to life on earth in the New Order. God will be able to provide adequate human bodies no matter how their former bodies disintegrated, whether rapidly by fire or slowly by decay.\n\nDefinitely God’s Word does recommend that the body of a dead loved one be dealt with in a dignified, respectful way. But whether a family, for emotional, economic or other reasons, will have a deceased loved one cremated or not is a personal matter.
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IS IT TRUE THAT IN AMERICA LOT OF HALF DEAD BODIES ARE LYING ALL AROUND BECOZ THEY ARE EITHER TOO DRUNK OR ON DRUGS....?\nINDIA INFACT HAS THE GREATEST OF RESPECT FOR ITS DEAD AS COMPARED TO THE WESTERN COUNTRIES...YOUR QUESTION SPEAKS OF IGNORANCE...AND NOTHING ELSE...
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The simple answer is they in their own mind are content not giving any thought to the fact it could be seen as better. Too bad they don't consider the fact there are lots of graves and no one has missed a permanent visit there. most just accept today and don't want to think of tomorrow eventhough it is very clear when tomorrow is seen it is today.
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My mom was a Catholic. When she died she was cremated and we had her ashes installed in one of the crypts of a Catholic Chruch. I was one of the designers for memorials parks in the 70's but lately I made an anti-thesis to that claiming that big areas of land in the metropolis should belong to the living and not to the dead and I supported my works with designs of high rise building for cremated deads complete with whatever amenities needed in memorial chapels and crematorium. I believe Catholic acceptance of cremation. started officially in the late seventies.
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Through the Ouachita Mountain Range in Eastern Oklahoma, and all along the Indian Nation Turnpike, there are miles and miles of rolling mounds as far as you can see. These are NOT burial grounds.\nI think Pathstr8t was historically correct, but that answer was quite insulting, if you ask me. ONE, you must be "studying these things" or you wouldn't be asking. TWO, "teepee" is a correct term, and THREE, what makes them so sure there weren't villages where mounds developed, because I know my father and I have found many, many arrowheads and artifacts in those mounded plowed fields.There is no need to be insulting to other askers.
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The dead do not come back and visit us.  They may be feeling spirits, but it's not their departed relatives.  It is demonic and is meant to lure you into false teaching.  Don't believe it.\n\nLuke 16:19-31 tells it well.  When Jesus used parables, He did not use names for the people in the story.  This is a true account and not a parable.  The man wanted to come back and couldn't.  If people could come back, they would only be declaring the Gospel I believe.
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I don't know about the game, but on the real Oregon Trail if you did not bury your dead the Native Americans would desecrate the bodies. Often the settlers would actually bury their dead on the trail itself and then run over the spot with the wagons, animals and walkers just so that they would remain undesturbed. It probably actually helped both peoples as handling the bodies of the sick would have made the spread of disease even worse to the native population.\n\nI suspect in the game that if you don't bury the dead you can expect and Indian attack very soon....
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Dont know exactly, but something to do with burying
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the egytian desert provides extremely  hot environment . this prevents decay of dead bodies and the process of  mummification is thereby supplemented by it. since the the tombs were relatively cooler than the prevailing conditions in the open they were first dried using salt with the added advantage of the climate then wrapped in linen.then these bodies were buried in tombs built exclusively for the rich and aristocratic.
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Many cemeteries have been abandoned over the years for lack of funds. Check with the county to see if in deed is was case,If it was then your friends do own it, and other then cleaning it up there isn't any thing that can be done with the land. States have laws  specific to cemeteries and disinterring bodies,weather the grave site was abandoned or not.
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East of West Jordan.  (LMAO)
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I've always been told that they face the east so that when Christ returns their bodies will rise to meet him. That's probably why it started and people have just stuck to the tradition. But, I live in the bible belt so things may be different in other parts of the country.
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I recall it originated from the time of the Egyptians where mummies would roll over.  This frightened the tomb keepers and that is why they were sealed and many false passages were created.  The term refers to the dead returning to haunt those who would continue to bring harm to loved ones or family.
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It's kinda difficult to bury a LIVING person. They kinda get annoyed about the dirt and stuff. =)
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Not all are buried 6ft down.  6ft was used because thats about the deepest a man could dig by hand, you can only throw dirt so high.\n\nMost graves in commercially run cemeteries are anywhere from 5 to 8 ft deep deeping upon the ground and the type of burial.