Article Dust or Ashes: Cremation Choice Among Kenyan Christians

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the body is chemicals, it disintegrates at death, as David Wasawo (2014:50–1) explains: Are we not mostly made of oxygen, carbon and hydrogen, sixty percent of which are in the form of water? Are we not reminded that a man weighing 150 pounds contains 97.5 pounds of oxygen, 27 pounds of carbon, 15 of hydrogen, 4.5 of nitrogen, 3 of calcium and 1.5 pounds of phosphorus? Added to these are a few ounces each of potassium, Sulphur, sodium, chlorine, magnesium, and iron; and traces of iodine, fluorine, and silicon. Wasawo (2014:51) notes how these elements are combined “to form thousands of very complicated compounds forming parts of cells, tissues, and organs, each performing its allotted function in the sentient being.” But when life is taken out of the body, all these elements revert to the “soil” and “dust” whence they came.

Dignity of the body

The church gives dignity to the human body because it is created in the image of God and is the dwelling place of the Holy Spirit. Therefore, the human body is her focus from birth to death. First, unlike other creatures, God made human beings in His image, hence respect for the human body (George 2002: n.p.; Oginde 2019b: n.p.).

Pope

Pius XII affirmed this position while addressing those engaged in treatment of the blind on 14 May 1956 ( see Pius 1956: 462-3): The human corpse has been a dwelling place of a spiritual and immortal soul, an essential part of the human person in whose dignity it had a share. Since it is a component part of man and formed in “the image and likenesses of God.” Christians gave reverence for the body through burial because of faith in the future resurrection. Because, as Geisler (1998:34) notes: “burial preserves the Christian belief in the body’s sanctity,”

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