{"id":32967,"date":"2022-09-10T16:30:16","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T21:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/few-americans-have-qualms-about-cremation\/"},"modified":"2022-09-10T16:30:16","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T21:30:16","slug":"few-americans-have-qualms-about-cremation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/few-americans-have-qualms-about-cremation\/","title":{"rendered":"Few Americans Have Qualms About Cremation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Bob Smietana<\/em><\/p>\n

NASHVILLE, Tenn.\u2014 A growing number of Americans are taking \u201cashes to ashes, dust to dust\u201d literally when they die.<\/p>\n

About 4 in 10 (41 percent) Americans say they plan to be cremated, according to a survey of 1,036 Americans from Nashville-based Lifeway Research. <\/p>\n

Six in 10 (58 percent) say being cremated won\u2019t keep you from being resurrected to live in heaven. And few (14 percent) say that cremation is wrong.<\/p>\n

The Lifeway online survey reflects the growing acceptance of cremation, which has become common in the United States.<\/p>\n

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About 4 in 9 (43.5 percent) Americans who died in 2012 were cremated, according to the Cremation Association of North America (CANA). That\u2019s nearly double the rate from 1996 (21.8 percent.)<\/p>\n

Lifeway researchers found that few Americans have qualms about the practice.<\/p>\n

More than 7 in 10 (71 percent) disagree with the statement, \u201cI believe it is wrong to cremate a body after someone dies.\u201d<\/p>\n

Only 3 in 10 (30 percent) disagree with the statement, \u201cI plan to have my body cremated when I die.\u201d Forty-one percent agree, while 29 percent do not know.<\/p>\n

Scott McConnell, vice-president of Lifeway Research, said that cremation fits the way most Americans live these days.<\/p>\n

\u201cFew people stay in the same place all their lives, so they don\u2019t have strong connection to a place they want to be buried,\u201d he said. \u201cCremation is also often less expensive than burial. And many of the social taboos about cremation are fading.\u201d<\/p>\n

The survey found that few Americans think cremation has any consequences for the afterlife. Fifty-eight percent disagree with the statement, \u201cIf someone\u2019s body is cremated, there is no way for them to be resurrected to live in heaven.\u201d Only 8 percent agree. One in 5 (20 percent) don\u2019t know. Fourteen percent say there is no resurrection to live in heaven.<\/p>\n

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Evangelical Christians have been wary of cremation in the past. And the practice does remain less common in the Bible belt.  In Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Tennessee, the cremation rate is among the lowest in the country, at 23.9 percent, according to CANA. By contrast, in Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington, the cremation rate is 60.3 percent.<\/p>\n

In Lifeway\u2019s survey, self-identified born-again, evangelical or fundamentalist Christians are most likely (27 percent) to say that cremation is wrong and to disagree (42 percent) when asked about being cremated. They\u2019re also (70 percent) most likely to disagree when asked if cremation would keep someone from being resurrected to live in heaven.<\/p>\n

Methodology: The online survey of adult Americans was conducted September 6, 2013. A sample of an online panel representing the adult population of the US was invited to participate. Responses were weighted by region, age, ethnicity, gender and income to more accurately reflect the population. The completed sample is 1,036 online surveys. The sample provides 95% confidence that the sampling error from this panel does not exceed +3.1%. Margins of error are higher in sub-groups.<\/p>\n

Lifeway Research is a Nashville-based evangelical research firm that specializes in surveys about faith in culture and matters that affect the church.<\/p>\n

Download the research<\/p>\n

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