Ashes Quote by Jerry Seinfeld

“Why do we bury our dead?” His nose was dented in at the bridge like a sphinx; the cause of which I could only…

— Yvonne Woon

“Left to their own devices, human bodies rot, decompose, come apart, and sink gloriously back into the earth from whence they came. Using embalming…

— Caitlin Doughty

Nothing is more detestable to the physical anthropologist than... the wretched habit of cremating the dead. It involves not only a prodigal waste of…

— Earnest Hooton

“When you get right down to it, there is no dignified way to go, be it decomposition, incineration, dissection, tissue digestion, or composting. They're…

— Mary Roach

There's an old, private cemetery here in Palm Springs, where I live, just down the street from the airport, that belongs to one of…

— Tod Goldberg

in the place I am from ... a grave is topped off with a huge mound of loose earth - carelessly, as if piled…

— Jamaica Kincaid

Usually, if you're buried alive, that's gonna be the last time that happens, isn't it?

— Alice Eve

I want a big 25-foot pink statue that holds my grave. Or I also might like the way the Indians did it. They hang…

— Jack Nicholson

“Not that there seems to be any appropriate place to bury someone, but these municipal cemeteries, or any cemetery at all for that matter,…

— Dave Eggers

“THE BARROW In this high field strewn with stones I walk by a green mound, Its edges sheared by the plough. Crumbs of animal…

— Anthony Thwaite

“After many ponderous experiments the first crematorium was opened in December 1920 in Petrograd. It could manage barely 120 bodies a month, and, in…

— Martin Amis

A person is entitled to be buried whole.

— Pinchas Stolper