I looked at some commentaries about this verse and it seems to me that the verse is not talking specifically about the actual disposement of the body, that is, being put intact into the ground as opposed to cremation. 'Without a life of goodness that fills one’s soul and is consummated with a burial as the proper ending of a long life where one has begotten many children, it would be better to be miscarried than to ever have been born and lived.' I have argued elsewhere,Įcc 6:3 If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial I say, that an untimely birth is better than he. The following is one of many biblical aspects of the importance of a proper burial. If the body is placed in a metal or metal-lined hermetically sealed container immediately after death, the body may be considered, for the purpose of transporting, an embalmed body. When that body is removed from storage and transported, the body shall reach its final destination within 24 hours following removal from storage. An unembalmed body may be retained in storage at a constant temperature of less than 40 degrees fahrenheit.

A body dead from any cause other than infectious or contagious disease may be interred or cremated without embalming if embalming would violate personal or religious beliefs and no health hazard or nuisance will result. A reasonable period of time beyond 24 hours may be permitted if: (a) Religious beliefs, laws or customs do not permit transportation or interments on Sabbath or holy days and (b) No health hazard or nuisance will result from such delay. So I ask, what is biblical about embalming?Ī body dead from any cause may be interred or cremated without embalming if interment or cremation is within 24 hours of death. So, that practically means you must embalm (or cremate) since no one will bury within 24 hours. You must embalm unless you can bury within 24 hours.

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