This says a lot about a country that is supposed to be a Christian country. It is clear that the religious bible thumpers are only concerned for the living and that they really don’t give a rat’s behind how the remains of the dead are treated. This tells me all I want to know how Christians treat each other. Bunch of stinking lying hypocrites!

I am so incensed by this but then….

Unfortunately those who ‘look after’ burial grounds seem not to care one iota about the dead…and island gal246 you are so very right this is an abomination…but there is so much more that goes on at our cemeteries and nobody seems to care. I went to a funeral the other day and was shocked at how the gravediggers scooped up huge concrete chunks obviously taken from a previous grave on the same spot… shoveling same into the ‘new’ grave hitting the casket with enormous loud thumps…so dyamned horrible with every crush of the casket…I felt for the son of the deceased who obviously was so overwrought he could not speak to them. Thank God that was not a relative of mine ’cause my voice would have been heard loud and clear!!!! A bit of earth first might surely have been a good idea but then…I am not a gravedigger!

Sometimes I look around and wonder what is really happening to our island. This new wave of horror-type behaviour seems to have really only started in the last 20/30 years…or am I wrong…was I just blind to the beauty of my homeland? But there is a huge change ah happening…a could-not-care-less attitude purvails. Perhaps it is lack of oxygen in the birth canal, or a mixture of that and GMO foods/pesticides/chemical water, chicken filled with hormones + all the fast food we are ingesting…’cause there is no doubt that brain matter seems to be deteriorating from top to bottom.

The GMO foods, chemicals and pesticides are taking a toll.

You all are late, this has been going on for years now.

But wait Casron, you pull dah idiot chain? I mussee blind cause I can’t see nuh part where you blame nuffin pon de BLP.
Kerrie Symmonds, uh mean Miller, Carson mek a simple statement. I know de BLP sins pon you conscience but tek it light. Leave out my dear-heart Carson fuh me!

Pon a different note, may all de deads rest in peace and rise in glory. Amen!

@ Perlixin Pearlie | October 30, 2012 at 1:25 PM |

Listen Pearlie, I was referring and responding to the contribution from Carson that David Bu redacted (deleted this time):- @ Carson C. Cadogan | October 30, 2012 at 12:16 PM |

My contribution was posted while David was deleting Carson’s scandalous charge against the BLP.
David can confirm. So get with the programme, malcious Pearlie!

Miller dear-heart, see me and dont see me. Peace be with you.

The solution to this is to educate Barbadians that it is more hygienic to dispose of the dead by cremation.When cremation was introduced to the UK,most folk did not accept it but gradually everyone came to accept it to the extent that it is the norm today.The Barbados Government might encourage cremation by decreasing the funeral grant for conventional burials and increasing the grant for cremations.The benefits are many besides the obvious sanitary disposal of human remains.
When people work in this type of business,they develop an insensitivity beyond belief.A colleague once told of a scene he witnessed at a funeral home at which workers were casually stepping over bodies lying on the concrete floor of the funeral home, like you step over a concrete block.They were acting like its an everyday occurrence .”Sceptre and crown,must tumble down and in the dust be equal made with the poor crooked scythe and spade”(GKC.)

DAVID

you really think that deleting my posts will solve anything!

@Bush Tea

Have you disregarded how we define ourselves? Don’t customs and mores flow into this process?

Woodland burial

@ David
“…what is happening is not right ….”
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LOL…. Seriously David, who determines what is “Right”?
What you mean is that you and Islandgal feels squeamish about the treatment of human remains….fair enough, but what resources are you prepared to invest in addressing the practical problem in a small island where you and Islandgal ALSO insist on burials rather than cremation, burial at sea, or woodland burials as BAFBFP suggests.

Can’t eat the cake AND have it David.

“Is there room for the idea that desecration conjures in this instance?”
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Lots of room. Desecration is not always a bad thing. Some of the most stupid and pervasive traditions that we slavishly follow are the results of us respecting some long entrenched and misguided notions that were and remain without any sound basis.

The human body, when alive, is deserving of much respect because it is a marvelous piece of engineering; because it is build in the very image of BBE; and because it plays host to an individual CHARACTER which possesses unbelievable potentialities.

On death, the only issue is the hygienic disposal of the organic remains in such a manner as to not cause dangerous pollution of the environment as the various elements disintegrate back into inert soil.

We disrespect each other when we are alive and then seek to show all kinds of ‘respect’ to our organic remains.

What desecration what?

“Let the dead bury their dead” speaks to this very point. The enlightened knows better than to place too much import on such purely administrative details, as opposed to seeking the TRUE and ultimate PURPOSE of LIVING in the first place.

The REAL desecration therefore occurs when we chose to live our lives meaninglessly accumulating “things”, and focusing on physical attributes THAT WILL ALL TURN TO DUST.
Instead, we should seek NOT to desecrate the opportunity that living provides us to build and refine the kind of character that will qualify us to accumulate things of value, that cannot corrode.

@Bush Tea

Are you not being a caustic?

As human beings we define ourselves through customs and symbols. It is part of the emotional intelligence sphere and how we support our existence. Yes if we isolate the dead body the sterile consideration should be to dispose of the body with only hygiene in mind. However sentiment (emotional factors) separate us humans from animals.

@ David

I am inclined to agree with BT when he said that some of us treat the living amongst us like the very dust from whence we came and then wish to revere the dead bones. Where is the sense in this? Remember, for those “Christians” here on the blog, that Holy Scripture tells us that “the body is the temple of the Holy Spirit”. So should we not treat our living bodies with far more respect that what takes place at present – eg. Kadooment day revelry and other such crass displays? Only “the hood” wondering if we are really using our God given intellect to good purpose.

@de hood

Good to see this topic has lured from the BU periphery 🙂

Where is the logic in your statement? Because there is hypocrisy by some among us does it negate the argument that we should respect the memory of the departed by treating with their remains in a respectful manner? We intellectualize simple things which should be instinctive.

@Gabriel

Good illustrations!

@ David

Is it only some, David? Seems like a whole lot to me. However, I am not supporting the desecration of the final resting place of mortal remains. What I was trying the highlight was the rabid hypocrisy amongst some of us.

BTW, seems like you have been elevated to the status of “prophet”. 🙂 How come you know so well that I always “on de side” here @ BU? 🙂

@ David
KInda havta agree wid u on Zoe. 🙂 Something about him that kinda rubs me the wrong way. Seems that u know your bloggers better than they think u do. Cheers.

Many visitors visit churches and cemeteries, how will this scene impact their visit. We are nothing but a bunch of Barbarians!

@ islandgal246 | October 31, 2012 at 7:31 PM |

Excellent point!
Only shows the hypocrisy in the “legalized” approach to keep undertakers and cemetery personnel in riches and everyday work.

Most plantations and other great houses had their own burial plot for the dear departed. What’s wrong with burying our own in our own gardens or backyard once certain conditions are met?

@ David
“…….it is like saying perception isn’t reality BUT it is isn’t it?”
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…to the emotional and the uninitiated, yes it is.
However one of the benefits of wisdom is the ability to see beyond perception and emotion….to REALITY and practicality.

all the parishes should have natural gas, how come only certain places have it and some dont, people need to call out their representatives for the areas that are being neglected.