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From its silencing of the discussion about death to outsourcing the details of death to depersonalized funeral homes via a financial transaction to celebrations of life without the body present to lifelike embalming and burial inside caskets or vaults in landscaped cemeteries They lean heavily on The American Way of Death Revisited by Jessica Mitford and The Good Funeral by Thomas Long and Thomas Lynch. Kindle lay me in god's good earth kindle Burreson and Hoeltke s argument in Lay Me in God s Good Earth is that Christian theology requires us to respect the body and the environment through the way we approach death and burial They offer green burial as a better way to proclaim the gospel story of hope in the face of death hope that God will resurrect both our bodies and all of creation. Book Lay Me in God's Good earthlink web The book includes many fascinating practical notes.

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But I find it strange ancient Egypt never came up What did come up was death and cremation practices we don t have access to legally or geographically So that was confusing On cremation it is not patently false that cremation grew in popularity because people were disgusted by the body or thought bodily fluids were gross It grew because at certain points in history cremation was considered an effective way to eradicate infectious disease among the dead and those who handled them Notice how cremation grew rapidly in popularity again during Covid Not mentioned My Christian responsibility to my loved ones.

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What Doesn t the Bible and even Jesus refer to dead people as sleeping or being asleep I don t have a problem with euphemisms for death Honestly the thing that got me the most was the terrible advice about preplanning cemeteries It s not a good idea because it s hard to sell if you change your mind later Sure Know what else is hard Your family having to spend several thousand dollars and several hours at a cemetery and probably a funeral home too on the worst day of their lives because you didn t plan ahead Your family having to choose cremation so they can delay burial for financial reasons Your ashes living on a shelf in the garage because no one wants to pay to bury you Etc I ve seen it In sum Metaphorically the most singularly spiritually meaningful and ecologically prudent way to live out the eternal drama of the circle of life is to task my loved ones with delivering my baby I mean.

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A Christian case for natural burial The promises of the Christian gospel are never precious or beautiful than in the context of death and burial And yet current burial practices in Western society are archaic and impersonal They fail to confront us with the reality of death and they make it harder to process death or to grieve properly Kent Burreson and Beth Hoeltke have been teaching a Christian understanding of death and natural burial for many years They argue that natural burial laying the body into the earth in a way that allows it to decompose naturally is not only better for the environment but is also a accurate picture of Christian hope of the resurrection Grounded in sound Christian teaching about death and burial they advocate for natural burial and offer practical instructions for navigating the complex questions around burial practices Lay Me in God s Good Earth is not only an immensely practical guide to natural burial it is also an application of the hope of the resurrection to those grieving the loss of their loved ones Lay Me in God s Good Earth A Christian Approach to Death and BurialIn light of the recent books The Lost Art of Dying by L. Lay Me in God's Good earthy color S Dugdale on the medical way of death and Accompany Them with Singing by Thomas Long on funeral practices we need clear eyed Christian alternatives to prevailing ways of thinking about death Because navigating the hospital and funeral industries can be difficult especially in days of sorrow we need practical ways to connect historic Christian tradition with the regulations of a particular place. God laying the foundations of the earth Lay Me in God s Good Earth A Christian Approach to Death and Burial continues the necessary conversation about thinking Christianly about death and points to many resources on green burial Kent Burreson and Beth Hoeltke make a compelling case that the modern funeral industry is dehumanizing including explaining the difference between a coffin and a casket a link to patterns for building a pine bookshelf that can be converted into a coffin and the placement of dry ice to preserve the body before the funeral not to mention the extensive planning guide and the lists of further resources offered in the appendices Because of the variety of local regulations the authors frequently cite The Green Burial Guidebook and Final Rights as resources for finding specifics related to your locality. Lay me in god's good earthology Throughout the book the authors were clear about their recommendations For example they explained the specifics of donating your body to science and implied that this would not be a respectful way to treat a human body In their chapter on preparing the body of a loved one they explained the variety of options for washing and preserving then gently encouraged the reader to try as many as they are able I was particularly interested in their opinions on cremation after a careful explanation of the process they concluded that cremation may be better for the environment than a casket in a vault but it is not as good as green burial due to the fossil fuel required they also argued that nature s unaided decomposition is humanizing than the mechanical process of cremation. Lay me in god's good earthy heaven I had hoped that this book would bridge the gap between theology and practice but I found it lacked a clear connection between the two After the first chapter of theological orientation the authors kept circling back between the theology and the practical as if they had to keep convincing the reader of the theological importance of this topic. Lay Me in God's Good earthy Both authors teach at Concordia Seminary and have previously co written Death Heaven Resurrection and the New Creation However I wished for about their personal connections with the topic what drew them each to consider green burial The most we got was a disclaimer that neither author is a registered death doula Ironically though they argued for the value of respecting the particularity of each human life they didn t share much of their own contexts. Lay me in god's good earthy heaven Similarly when discussing funeral services they assumed a singularity within the Christian tradition By acknowledging their denominational context they could have clarified that there is not a singular Christian funeral I assume their denominational context is Lutheran based on their connection with Concordia and the liturgical examples they cited in the endnotes If they had situated themselves within both denominational and personal contexts they could have made the connection between the why and the what concrete. Lay all your worries on god Most confusingly it felt like the authors spent the whole book backing into their argument After the first theological chapter the remaining chapters were about 2 green burial 3 funeral practices with 4 an excursus on the journey metaphor for dying 5 preparation of the body 6 the dying process and 7 normalizing talking about death A chronological order the exact reverse chapter order would have made much sense as a guide to think through and plan for your own death In fact because the conclusion did a good job of clarifying their argument I wished that had come much earlier in the book. EPub Lay Me in God's Good earthlink web This reversed order would have guided readers first to be willing to approach the subject then to navigate hospice options for dying then their wishes for preparing their body next the funeral service itself and finally burial options After all this book s strengths are its willingness to discuss planning for death and the abundance of resources it offers in making a plan to push against the funeral industry I wished those strengths would have been better organized to connect our theology with practice received early access via NetGalley from the publisher this review was originally posted on Englewood Review of Books 9781514007600 This is a worthwhile read and I highlighted many sections That said it is my opinion that the authors fail to support their pro natural burial premise They pretty much say that this is how it should be done and throw in some why here and there While I agree with their support of natural burial their approach isn t going to change people s course of action The status quo of the funeral industry is strong and we Christians need a compelling argument if we re going to change things. Book lay me in god's good earth lyrics The book seemed to be very repetitive and poorly organized Several sections overlapped instead of organizing the information provided in the pertinent chapter I took particular issue with bringing up the Japanese art of kintsugi saying that The art of living after death comes from putting back together the broken pieces accepting the pieces as they are discarding some as needed and creating new spaces and places for the rest over time I have no idea why the authors thought that mention of the Japanese art merited mention especially after outlining repeatedly how modern burial practices aren t based in scripture Clearly the art of kintsugi is also not based in Christian scripture 9781514007600 Summary A Christian approach to death care for body of the deceased and burial making the case for natural burial. Lay me in god's good earthzone lyrics The height of the COVID pandemic accentuated the increasingly institutionalized and impersonal ways in which we deal with the ultimate realities of dying death and the bodies of our deceased Given the deadly character of the infection dying patients were isolated They often spoke their final words to family on an I Pad They died alone perhaps comforted by a masked and begowned caregiver Because of public health concerns families couldn t gather for funeral services or bury their dead It was an extreme version of the increasingly common American way of dying controlled by the medical and funeral establishment with the family and one s faith community playing marginal parts. Lay me in god's good earthness song Kent Burreson and Beth Hoeltke advocate a very different approach to death and burial As Lutheran Christians they believe our approach to dying and our burial practices ought to reflect our faith Specifically they focus on the death burial and resurrection of Jesus as both our hope and pattern In this we find both the example of being lovingly laid to rest and the hope of our own bodily resurrection as part of the renewal of all things in the new heaven and earth. Lay Me in God's Good earthnwood They invite us to rethink things we may not want to think about at all They begin with burial Instead of embalming makeup expensive metal caskets and concrete vaults or energy intensive cremations they advocate natural burial in which an unembalmed body either in a shroud or wooden casket is committed to the earth They contend this is most consonant with Christian belief and the most environmental way of burial For this reason another name for natural burial is green burial The authors invite us into end of life planning Not only do they consider our burial practices They also discuss how we talk about or euphemize death Likewise they offer resources for how we support the dying including where we die We learn about death doulas who walk with families through the dying practice They explore alternatives to the funeral home including preparing and laying out the body at home We learn how to treat bodies of loved ones with dignity They discuss funeral services not celebrations of life where both the reality of death with the body present and the hope of the resurrection are joined. PDF Lay Me in God's Good earth The book is both theological and practical Some of the practice reflects the particularities of Lutheran order While the authors discuss various alternatives they clearly prefer death at home family preparation of the body church funerals and natural burial A group I read this with struggled to find a biblical case for this At best we found that these practices broadly reflect a Christian understanding of death the dignity of the body and our resurrection hope But we noted both other burial practices in church history and the reality that no matter the disposition of the body the supernatural reconstitution needed in resurrection The strongest argument especially for natural burial is the ecological one. Book lay me in god's good earth book However the book is very practical Some may be squeamish in reading the chapter on washing and preparing the body Yet this is what families do in much of the world We didn t embalm the dead in this country until the Civil War The authors inform us of permits needed to transport bodies and of states that require funeral directors to do this They discuss where burials may take place including church yards where this was once common or even on private property check the laws in your state as well as the growing number of green cemeteries. Lay me in god's good earthy heaven The last third of the book is in workbook form allowing the reader to begin their own process of planning Additional appendices offer resources including comparative burial costs books websites and state by state funeral boards. Kindle Lay Me in God's Good earthlink web The reader may or may not agree with their preferred approaches However this book offers resources for beginning hard but important family conversations It also offers a wealth of resources for pastors to teach on death and dying Most of all it stirs me to think about how we might live our hope even in our dying. Lay Me in God's Good earthnow ____________________Disclosure of Material Connection I received a complimentary copy of this book from the publisher for review 9781514007600 AudioI was really looking forward to this book I talk with people about death almost daily as I help them flesh out their funeral and cemetery plans I had a lot of unexpectedly strong feelings about the book s content In short I m not convinced Further there s bad advice in this book The book talked disparagingly about funeral homes and cemeteries I went looking for the authors connection to death care when I found their suppositions lacking insight I didn t find a connection. Lay Me in God's Good earthzyme My biggest issue with the book is it s a big ask without concrete biblical reasons I never felt the authors made a strong case I never felt clear on who the intended audience was the dying Caregivers Adult children Minister presiding over the service There was advice for all of them Biblically I think a case could be made that in the Old Testament Levitical law provided for care of the dead ergo death care was a task of the priests Under the new covenant we the royal priesthood now bear this responsibility But that was absent The authors use inflammatory language when it serves their point without further elaboration You don t want a vault in a cemetery they say as vaults abuse the earth yet no reason is given why they are commonly used Skyscrapers and buried utility lines abuse the earth too Are we for or against On embalming The authors have a vendetta against embalming All the gallons of embalming fluid we are dumping into the earth goes into a body which goes into a casket which goes into a vaultso not leaking into the ground Embalming is ecologically toxic as is chemotherapy and hair dye and junk food In care of the earth or care of the body why would we have higher standards in death than in life Give me consistency Embalming we learn many times came about in America in the Civil War according to the book is to spend long hours with them leading up to death and after There s no mention of employer bereavement which is a few days at best in my last job I got one day for my grandmother s death in another state because she wasn t a close enough relative to warrant I should handle the logistics instead of hiring a funeral home professional though hiring them on a consultant basis to help me do their job myself is ironically ok because they re strangers and we can t entrust them to play out the drama of the eternal story like we can It s good to do these things ourselves the book says so we re not sitting around with nothing to do after a loved one s death because we ve outsourced funeral plans to the professionals Gah Just because a profession is young doesn t mean it s not valuable Funeral professionals are a gift they take on details that overwhelm us in the fog of grief loss and emotion. Lay me in god's good earthness song I find it mind boggling to consider what the book s ideal scenario would entail if I was tasked with a loved one s burial I need to do all the research to get the right permits to transport my loved one Do I have a car big enough Can I pick up the casket from Costco or arrange delivery from I can buy the stuff online for only 12 a sheet to keep my loved one semi refrigerated to avoid embalming But why The authors lament how we use so many euphemisms about death saying the Bible is always direct about death Um OBGYN is such a new profession that only came about in the last 100 years because the demand for hospitals allowed them to collect money for services they provide for families We can do that ourselves We can t trust OBGYNs they re strangers Plus OBGYNs remove the beauty of birth from the public eye they perform all their work behind a curtain we need to bring it back into the public realm of okay ness and that starts with you Baby Daddy You need to reclaim your rights That will require such varied skills as collecting and sanitizing the instruments catching the baby performing the apgar handling all the PR and having researched all the details to file the birth certificate with the proper authorities With an audience and without sleep Because that s your responsibility as a Christian. Lay Me in God's Good Earth kindle unlimited It s not quite that bad but you get my drift 9781514007600 A helpful theological and practical look at a way of approaching death burial that honors the body and the earth 9781514007600