Quote by Martin Amis

Cremation has become the most popular form of burial in the United States... People used to want a big, thick granite stone, their names…

— Jerry Seinfeld

“A crematorium crisis: the coffin got stuck halfway in, so the oven door couldn’t close properly. The coffin caught fire and the smoke seeped…

— Hendrik Groen

But that was in the days when they expected perils to come from without, and nothing made less sense by that time than a…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“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

Most people die at age 25 and are buried at age 65.

— Myles Munroe

“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

“Instructions for Dad. I don't want to go into a fridge at an undertaker's. I want you to keep me at home until the…

— Jenny Downham

There wasn't a funeral per se. I buried [Gilda Radner] 3 miles from her house that she had bought just shortly before we met.…

— Gene Wilder

“I remember calling the council's cemetery department to ask about body decomposition in different soil types. Once they had verified that I was a…

— Sara Sheridan

When my mother died, we had the coffin at home. Like, old-school - you have the coffin at home so all the people can…

— Tricky

“That was only the beginning of the Nazi “Production Schedule.” Three hundred and sixty corpses every half hour, which was all the time it…

— Olga Lengyel