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When I was riding through Bangkoks many streets, with my wife, I did not see even ONE cemetery. When I asked her why there are no cemeteries in Bkk., she did not even know what a cemetery is...I have a map of Bkk. and look as much as I want I can`t see one cemetery there.So what happens with dead in Bkk.-they all get cremated?...or there are cemeteries outside the city?...do all Buddhist cremate their dead?...no burrials?...

[AngelinaLip]

When I was last with my fiance and we were driving around up country we passed a cemetary and she pointed it out. Saying it was chinese and there were a lot of chinese in that area. I asked what thais did and she said they were cremated.

[JennyStewarta]

When I was riding through Bangkoks many streets, with my wife, I did not see even ONE cemetery. When I asked her why there are no cemeteries in Bkk., she did not even know what a cemetery is...I have a map of Bkk. and look as much as I want I can`t see one cemetery there.So what happens with dead in Bkk.-they all get cremated?...or there are cemeteries outside the city?...do all Buddhist cremate their dead?...no burrials?...

Yes, Buddhists cremate their dead.

I'm not sure what Muslims do in Thailand. Elsewhere I think they generally bury their dead.

[timmybrown]

Chonburi

[ireleda]

Well, since you asked about BKK, I would imagine that most Thai are cremated, Chinese seem to bury, but I don't hang around there so don't know about cemeteries.
But in other places there seems to be different ways, even for Buddhists.

[movlabc]

There are plenty of cemataries in Bangkok. Yes, they are mostly for the older Chinese and ones who adhere to their Chinese beliefs.

I can not believe how your wife can not possibly know what a cemetary is! Or perhaps you and her have a bit of a langauge problem between yous.

[timmybrown]

I can not believe how your wife can not possibly know what a cemetary is! Or perhaps you and her have a bit of a langauge problem between yous.

its difficult to describe what a cementary is with your hands.

[Thomas12400]

I'm not sure what Muslims do in Thailand. Elsewhere I think they generally bury their dead. They bury them in Thailand as well... Muslim cemetaries abound.

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Personaly I would not object to have my remains cremated, and I think it is the most sanitary way of disposing of a dead body. But lot of people I know STRONLY object to such funerals-generaly it goes with individuals religious upbringing-an old man from my church gets fired up, and gets all burned up when he hears that some of his old friend died, and his children got him cremated- because of the cheaper funeral price. But in reality if ALL the dead in the past were cremated, look how much we living would have missed-all those mummies from Egypt & other part of the world, we living have learned a lot from the dead...once a body is burned...there is no trace of the person, like he/she had never lived in this world.... ...well to each their own...

[Immampdah]

It is not about "cheaper service"

It is our belief. Buddhists do not attach to the body, once a person died, we let go. The trace of the person is in our hearts and memories.

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Oh, I did not mean that cremation is cheaper-less expensive in THAILAND, I meant it is cheaper here in U.S....and it is considerably less expensive.I have seen on pics. my wife sent me from Thailand a Buddhist funeral,...I seen that beautyful coffin, so lavishly decorated...(maybe that sarcophagus was only holding another coffin inside, which was actually burned, because it would surely be a shame to burn such work of art) and No!,..I would never say that funeral is "cheap" in Thailand.Funeral as I saw on those pics must cost a "fortune"...

[AngegepeM]

Go green!

A hole, cotton sheet, then a tree over the top !

[SOgLak]

A plain pine box, carried to the crematorium on the back of my 1929 Model A pickup truck, is the instruction in my will.

[JennyStewarta]

It is not about "cheaper service"

It is our belief. Buddhists do not attach to the body, once a person died, we let go. The trace of the person is in our hearts and memories.

Beautifully put TK.

[Fvmfrctt]

Yep, TK. seems that we can know of people, our wive's and think we understand them. Your the first that has helped me understand why their are continuous tom boon's for the departed. thank's..

[largonioulurI]

Well in India, relatives leave the bodies of there dead, in what I would describe as a circular building, with low walls, and no roof, so the Vultures can sit on the walls, and swoop down and start eating the dead.

[Nautilus]

I think you may possibly be confusing India with Tibet ("Sky Burial"). Cremation is normal for Hindus and Sikhs, burial for Muslims in India.

[LasTins]

in India, Parsis practise sky burials. they are Zoroastrians by religion. search for "towers of silence". the ancient custom is endangered by the gradual extinction of vultures.

[Nautilus]

Thanks, Betti, I have just done that search-very interesting-never knew that before, despite having spent time in India.

[JennyStewarta]

Well in India, relatives leave the bodies of there dead, in what I would describe as a circular building, with low walls, and no roof, so the Vultures can sit on the walls, and swoop down and start eating the dead.

I think only one ethnic/ religious group in India do this.

The Parsis, who are Zoroastrians who migrated from Persia to India a few hundred years back, practice a form of sky burial. The buidlings you describe are called "towers of silence."

Edit: Sorry Betti, I just read that you have noted this already.