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The place where a man is buried is saercd to me. This subject is made mention of in the Book of Mormon and other scriptures. Even to the aborigines of this land, the burying places of their fathers are more saercd than anything else. I believe those who have buried their friends here, their condition is enviable. Look at Jacob and Joseph in Egypt, how they required their friends to bury them in the tomb of their fathers. See the expense which attended the embalming and the going up of the great company to the burial. It has always been considered a great calamity not to obtain an honorable burial: and one of the greatest curses the ancient prophets could put on any man, was that he should go without a burial.Those same Asian members who weren't troubled at all about having only one or two children got heartburn over the no cremation policy, but we North American hardly even noticed it. There are places in the world where there simply is no space in graveyards, or the water table is too high, or for other cultural reasons, that burial is simply not an option.For these reasons, I think it is best to take a very low-key approach to changes in our doctrines and policies. If we had to put them in the D&C and announce them in conference, we would literally have 5- or 600 sections in the D&C now, and Thomas S. Monson would have to spend so much time on announcements in GC that we would never get to hear about his visits to Grandma in the rest home, and that would be a shame.Again, I vote for the handbook, with the caveat that it should get broader circulation.
by Monica 03:18:18 PM 2013.10.24 |
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