well thats buggered the crem fee income then! I always like the bit on the
form which says have i any pecuniary advantage-of course i have, i get a fee
for signing it!
>From: Declan Fox <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: GP-UK <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Does any religion object to signing cremation certificates?
>(GMC consultation)
>Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:40:44 +0100
>
>Couldn't say. As I said, I am no expert on this but I have never heard of a
>Catholic over here being cremated! So must be some substance to the belief,
>if not the rationale for the belief.
>
>Declan
>
><<ut surely if you were a candidate for sanctification then the flames
>wouldn't be able to touch you anyway - thereby considerably shortening the
>canonisation process.
>
>On 19/08/07, Declan Fox <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> I have no idea what el Papa and the Vatican say these days but I can
> tell you for sure that lots of traditional Catholics in Ireland object
> to cremation on religious grounds. That's regular folks, not doctors.
> Rationale goes back to the days of fond belief in saints and in good
> ordinary folks sometimes being canonised. I always heard that one of
>the
> criteria for sainthood was that the body had to be exhumed and show no
> signs of decay. Not sure how formalin comes into the equation, I'm no
> expert on this. But anyway, if a body got cremated, that buggered up
> that person's chance of ever being canonised.
> So I was taught and so I heard, when I was younger and to this day,
> plenty of devout Catholics would not consider cremation for themselves
> or anyone belonging to them. All my Catholic friends and neighbours
> around here get buried in wooden coffins, have not heard of anyone
>ever
> opting for cremation.
>
> So that would be two fingers +/- a legal challenge to the GMC. Have
>to
> set old ratface onto Graham Catto!
>
> Declan
> >
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