Bury. There is a constant reminder of the person, name,lifetime on the grave stone. Hiyo mti will be cut at some point especially with people who do not know the person.But this is quite debatable...wengine wanasemaje?

Do you have the bible reference?

Enyewe, a tombstone is quite a turn off. Not that graves should be unmarked. A low lying slab of concrete (that unless tended to will be overgrown with grass) will do, not some constructed thing as if its a literal high table of concrete!

Why not plant a tree at the grave? Most likely its only your siblings or children who will care about you when you are gone.

A 6x6 ft plot is is very little to ask when I am dead.
There is nothing in the bible that says Ashes to Ashes.only dust to dust .

But actually the bible says at Genesis3:19b " for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return."(KJ) no mention of ashes. Further, other bible text mention ground, earth, and dust that man returns to at death.

@kadonye

If the bible doesnt say that, then my priest and many others make it up when saying those funeral prayers.... They say it all the time.

@sheep.... there we have it! and with the mordern day cremation.... it is just the clean way to go... well, may be by the time we are gone this technology wont be here... but..... i think its the best send off.

By the way, did you know the skin takes over 10 years to decompose completely, bones take hundreds of years and the hair not at all? You dont want to scare children some 100 years from now when they accidentally pull up your skull from the farm.....

Cremate and save your loved one the hassle of travel, harambees etc. Do the environment a favour, cremation need no trees to be cut for the coffin, does not need land space. I look at all the land under Langata cemetry and think, what a waste? It should be turned into a recreational park.

I was listening to Njoya yesterday (on tv) and he made a lot of sense about why we should cremate in Kenya. His question was where are we going to bury 40m Kenyans if we don't cremate? This country will be full of graves and can you imagine the amount of good timber that will be wasted in coffins?

This coffin maneno doesn't make sense they should be reused since they are only for show and will only exist in photos and videos like wedding dresses.

You need to know your God......through the bible more than what thr priest just says or tells you!!

Have a personal relationship with Him

The bible is your manual......read and understand.....God himself will help you do so.

We go to church because we are commanded.....in Hebrews not to forsake the gathering together of the saints.

I will not support cremation....coz death and the grave are referred to severally......

Probably where you are sitted now is a grave.....but ya zama za kale!!

I find more of a ritual ..... than a burial!!!

Hiyo harufu mtaifanyia????

Sasa ona.... and we cant dig them up and put up a sky scrapper? kwanza hao wanajeshi ni wale wale walikuwa wananyanyasa watu wakati wa ukoloni...

The Bible doesn't give instructions on how a body should be handled after death. In the cultures of Bible times, burial in a tomb, cave, or in the ground was the common way to dispose of a human body.
Today, obeying the laws of the land regarding corpses is always a significant consideration.Then there is the question of burial vs. cremation. Neither is commanded in the Bible, but neither is prohibited. In the end, it is best to leave that decision to the family of the deceased.

Whatever method is used to dispose of a body is not nearly as important as the truth that the body is no longer housing the person who has died. Paul describes our bodies as “tents” that are temporary abodes. “Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands” (2 Corinthians 5:1). When Jesus returns, Christians will be raised to life and our bodies will be transformed to glorified, eternal bodies. “So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable; it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power” (1 Corinthians 15:42-43).

With all this hype, start a well known cremation center and charge...