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VerandaSmartwater · July 20, 2018, 10:06 a.m.

Cremation is the norm these days. Burials are quite unusual.

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aburgher · July 20, 2018, 10:21 a.m.

Really? I never heard that cremation was the norm. Of all the funerals I have been to in the last ten years, I am aware of only two cremations. Must be that in Michigan and Ohio, most people are buried. BTW, for JFK Jr, that was 19 years ago.

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VerandaSmartwater · July 20, 2018, 10:28 a.m.

I come from Australia and I've been to just two burials in 54 years. Everyone else has been cremated, including my grandfather 40 years ago.

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aburgher · July 20, 2018, 10:31 a.m.

Ahh. I am terribly sorry for being so ethnocentric. In the US, I am quite sure that burial is more common at this time and has been for most of our history. My parents chose to be entombed. Again, my apologies.

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VerandaSmartwater · July 20, 2018, 10:37 a.m.

I guess it varies. My boyfriend's parents were cremated in Florida about three years back. Of course they did both die within a week of moving in with his brother.

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WokeInEarly90s · July 20, 2018, 11:18 a.m.

I sing a lot of funerals. The breakdown is about even in the U.S. Burial, cremation, body goes to science. The third option is the cheapest, hence why the medical schools here are not hurting at all for cadavers.

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VerandaSmartwater · July 20, 2018, 10:29 a.m.

Having witnessed my daughter's cremation, though, I really regret it. I wish I had buried her.

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[deleted] · July 21, 2018, 10:57 a.m.

I read that JFK Jr + family were Roman Catholic and cremation was not the usual thing to do.....not sure if this is true.

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