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I was wondering for people who wants their body to be burned to ashes when they die, how come there's still a coffin to be burried even though their ashes are going to be kept in a jar?
For example, Anna Nicole Smith
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Most people don't do that, if a person is cremated the family holds a memorial service instead of a funeral and they never get a coffin. The ashes are stored in an urn until they're disposed off... some people bury the ashes, others request to have them spread out somewhere. Coffins are expensive and personally I think they're wasteful, but if you're a celebrity worth millions of dollars I guess your family won't want to spare any expense.
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Once a coffin has had a body in it, like for the viewing. It can't be reused for anything else. That is one of the simplest reasons people bury empty coffins. It's garbage now. There is nothing else to be done with it!
Then of course, as other said, it is symbolic. Some people never use the coffin at all for the body but many people like to have a gravesite, even if the body was donated to science or cremated.
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i think it is just out of repesct for the deceaced person.
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Anna Nicole Smith wasnt cremated. But they bury the coffin because its kind of like burying the persons soul, so it can be free and go to heaven. Because you arent keeping the soul in the jar its just the remains.
Hope i helped :).
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