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To the burning of the bodies of the dead at different times, in different parts of the world there was a different attitude. For example, Christianity considers this godly, sinful deed. However, in Europe, say, the Etruscans always burned the bodies of the dead, later the Greeks took over this matter from them and the Romans, and in Russia the first crematoriums appeared in the twenties last century – they were introduced by the godless Bolshevik revolutionaries. The church was against cremation.
On the other hand, in the East, the bodies of the deceased always burned, because Buddhism preaches that in the fire the soul is purified, which must after reincarnation, start your new life from scratch. If turn to Slavic legends and traditions, then here is a rite burning (especially the wicked, whose ashes were scattered in the wind) served as a guarantee of purification of the soul before sending it to a thin world.
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The inexplicability of a strange experiment
In 1996, during some permissiveness in the country, Petersburg television showed a direct report from the crematorium. The highlight of this show, which few saw (it passed in the afternoon and never repeated again), it became that to the deceased’s head attached electroencephalograph sensors in order to examine brain activity at the time the corpse is sent to the oven.
Naturally, the device showed complete peace, since a person He died a few days ago, and his brain stopped its work long ago. But as the coffin approaches the vent of the furnace, the pen of the electroencephalograph suddenly trembling, and then completely began to write out high teeth, as if the dead person’s brain came to life in danger and began in fear shout.
No matter how fantastic it seems, but when scientists deciphered the readings of the device, it was determined that the brain of the corpse before the vent of the fire furnace gave the same signal that the living brain gives, a very frightened person.
Scientists have promised viewers to comment on all this with scientific point of view in the next program however continuing this a unique experiment (at least showing it on TV) is not followed. Someone from above ordered to close this topic …
Track the crematorium tubes
St. Petersburg presented another interesting fact about cremation bodies of the deceased. Atheist and scientist, doctor of the Mechnikov hospital, let’s call him Ivan Ivanovich, who was sober and skeptical mind, one late late February evening he returned home. By absurd accident (and are there any accidents in this life?) he didn’t sit down into that bus and for some reason fell asleep. The conductor woke him on final stop as the car was heading to the park.
Ivan Ivanovich began to wait for the next bus, drawing attention on what is near the city crematorium. Like all doctors possessing some cynicism, he decided to count for nothing, how many corpses will be burned until the next bus arrives. When from the first batch of smoke appeared, indicating that one deceased has already burned down, the doctor is stupefied – in the smoke he saw human silhouette.
Ivan Ivanovich missed several buses, watching crematorium, and every time I saw it, as soon as smoke burst from the chimney, he immediately formed into the silhouette of a man. And when the smoke in the end went in full flow, then in it the doctor had already counted several human silhouettes …
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How the Church relates to cremation
It is difficult to say whether Petersburg scientists have revised after such surprising cases of their atheistic views, however, these facts clearly show that cremation remains for us living people, a riddle over seven seals. And for Christians, which is most Russians still have a question – is one of the church dogma that the body of the deceased must be betrayed land, not burn? Are our distant ancestors Slavs whose beliefs were far more ancient and deeper than Christianity, did not understand the essence of burning the bodies of the dead? And then, where, if not in the same earth, and the ashes of the burned body go away? ..
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