Several good follow questions on your cremation article, Nikki writes, and hello, Pastor

John, I read your article, should Christians cremate their loved ones with interest?

My mom, a Christian, has made it known that she wants her body to be donated to research.

After her death, sent just quote, she won't need it anymore, end quote.

And Laura in St. Paul, Minnesota writes, and Pastor John, thank you for your recent article

on cremation versus burial and the dignity of the human body.

Having trained in biology and medicine, I can attest to the necessity of having human

cadavers available for training.

What insights would you provide someone who is considering donating their body to science,

such as an anatomy bequest program?

Also, if the dignity of the human body could be a reason against donating one's body to

science, wouldn't this also be a reason to not be an organ and tissue donor as well?

What would you say to Nikki and Laura?

Well, it's an incredibly good question and important question and a front burner question

because I just did a funeral a few weeks ago for one of my favorite people in all the

world.

And I didn't know at all what she had planned and the body wasn't there and I talked

to her closest friends, she's in her 80s and she said she'd give it to the university.

So this is irrelevant and close.

The reason that the intrinsic dignity of the human body rooted in creation by God and

destiny for resurrection is morally significant in my article about cremation is that the

choice is between burning the body and burying the body.

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