It really depends on which sect of Christianity they are members of and their own personal views of the matter. Mormonism for example does not officially take a stance but strongly encourages burial vs cremation whenever possible. Catholicism “earnestly recommends” burial, and actively forbid cremation until the sixties; also, even though they tolerated it, they would not perform any ceremonies for cremated deceased until the eighties. According to my understanding, Eastern Orthodox still doesn’t allow cremation, but my knowledge of that branch is a bit more sketchy. As an aside, I believe cremation is banned by Judaism and Islam (though I assume this varies by branch, and my knowledge is even less comprehensive for these cases).
In my case I already knew they were against cremation, so this was just tailoring the message of cryonics to what they’d accept. It shifted them from thinking cryonics was ‘unnatural’ to thinking it was ‘nice but too expensive’. Hopefully one day they’ll shift even more to ‘hey I can afford that’.
It really depends on which sect of Christianity they are members of and their own personal views of the matter. Mormonism for example does not officially take a stance but strongly encourages burial vs cremation whenever possible. Catholicism “earnestly recommends” burial, and actively forbid cremation until the sixties; also, even though they tolerated it, they would not perform any ceremonies for cremated deceased until the eighties. According to my understanding, Eastern Orthodox still doesn’t allow cremation, but my knowledge of that branch is a bit more sketchy. As an aside, I believe cremation is banned by Judaism and Islam (though I assume this varies by branch, and my knowledge is even less comprehensive for these cases).
In my case I already knew they were against cremation, so this was just tailoring the message of cryonics to what they’d accept. It shifted them from thinking cryonics was ‘unnatural’ to thinking it was ‘nice but too expensive’. Hopefully one day they’ll shift even more to ‘hey I can afford that’.