Do you give time to preparing yourself? Of course, since the older you get, the closer it comes. Is it permissible to have dead bodies cremated, or is that just a heathen ritual? The Jews, in distinction to other Mediterranean cultures, did not practice cremation. For them, the burial of the body was, so to speak, like sowing the seed in expectation of resurrection. And that became the Christian custom. In burial, there was a silent expression of faith in the resurrection and in hope, and there still