This may be useful or shared with anyone who may have questions about preserving human deceased bodies:
After Death: The Question of Preserving The Human Body
By Mark A. Kurtz
A very nice thought about God is belief He has in mind a plan and desire for each person to graduate from Earth into eternal life, a plan for each believer to wake up into new life after this first trial. It is an eternal adventure we cannot fully imagine while yet at the human, limited knowledge level.
Humankind developed thousands of traditions and beliefs over many millennia, all the while establishing many different doctrine and ecclesiastical authorities. We learned some truths and also developed many false concepts. Perhaps the greatest of all emerging mysteries involved our whereabouts after death, which became a worrisome challenge largely resulting in very costly preferences and practices.
Mysteries impelled man to preserve deceased bodies. We believe we shall rise again. This explains ancient traditions and protocols to protect bodies by embalming and burial in containers. Recall from the Bible John mentions Jesus saying, “in my Father’s house are many mansions.”
My understanding is human bodies return to “dust” after life ceases and are retained on Earth. The body stays on Earth because material bodies of flesh and blood cannot be transported through the atmosphere to outer space next life stations. Upon death the former human body, which hosted the Father’s Indwelling Spirit, becomes a lifeless and useless shell. It returns to planetary material elements managed by God’s unseen servants.
You may have heard of the soul. It is of unseen morontia material, a spiritually higher level than human material bodies. The soul is God’s unique guarantee of absolute, unduplicated, positive identity of each person. Morontia is a vast life phase to transition people from purely material form as we now are to pure spirit. It is born the moment the Father’s personal Spirit gift, a fragment of himself, arrives unannounced in our mind. It arrives at about age 5 1/2 years with the first moral decision while facing a right or wrong choice. It is His personal reach out to us to guide and spiritualize us as he plans for us to eventually become perfect.
Built up over a lifetime, upon body death our morontia soul is taken into protective, loving custody by a Guardian Seraphim. It is preserved according to arrangements mankind has not heretofore widely known.
God’s loving salvation methods were unknown to early man, which explains the great efforts to preserve material bodies. Consider the Egyptians and others for their great lengths and expense for survival. We spend great sums to preserve what God dissolves for return to original material energies. The mortuary industry has fostered these arrangements knowing of extensive beliefs.
When death overtakes a person, the mind sleeps in total unawareness, the Father’s Indweller temporarily departs, and our soul is lovingly transported to heavenly Mansion World One where we will resume life in new conscious form. On the Mansion Worlds God’s designated ministry uses the soul to form a new, custom-designed body of morontia material, a higher level body for each survivor.
The method for moving each individual, personal soul identity from Earth to the next life station is by seraphic transport. We will wake up in “heaven” at a new place and be very lovingly welcomed into higher morontia life to resume ongoing life! A Guardian Seraphim enwraps our soul safely into her being and takes us to the next life station. The Father’s spirit that guided us during human life will rejoin us for continuing upward spiritual ascension over a long period toward ultimate destiny, His Paradise home. What a wonderful gift!
Beginning here on Earth and continuing in the morontia life phases, believers will be granted long and loving opportunities to adjust and learn many wonderful lessons from teachers, ministers and advisers who will lead us through many adventures. These are truly loving provisions from the Father through the Son we know as Jesus.
With this said, we see there is no real need to preserve a deceased body. We need true comforting faith in His plan. Jesus always encouraged people to have faith. He knew of the Father’s plan to move us to the next life level and onward to the Father.
These concepts are affirmed in The Urantia Book, a profound source full of clarifying and inspiring teachings to help us restore hope and confidence in the Father. I consider The Urantia Book a wonderful source affirming importance for humankind progression to higher comprehension of spiritual realities. The Father’s love shines brightly in its pages! Jesus and all his unseen servants, some who were involved in bringing us the book, are working full time to help us see and understand what is true! His desire to update us through this very significant source for greater, true progress is wonderful to contemplate. His peace passes all understanding.
July 2026