Not that we like thinking much about it but Robinson Jeffers has convinced us to be cremated for the reason he gave in his poem Cremation:
Cremation
It nearly cancels my fear of death, my dearest said,
When I think of cremation. To rot in the earth
Is a loathsome end, but to roar up in flame — besides, I
am used to it,
I have flamed with love or fury so often in my life,
No wonder my body is tired, no wonder it is dying.
We had a great joy of my body. Scatter the ashes.
(Quoted from page 6 of Yoga: The Poetry of the Body, by Rodney Yee. Thomas Dunne Books, 2002.)
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