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But 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 >