The preceding post was based on general ground and did not even include that the man himself asked to be cremated and his ashes to be scattered secretly. Saying something like that would make the listener question even how okay the person would have been with being the only available option for organ donation after death to save the life of another person from imminent death, let alone an unnecessary reason like the one here. The explanation ascribed to him for that as being to discourage pagans and idolaters suggests to me that he anticipated being treated like an object even after death and said that to counter it. But in any case, even with taking the purpose of choosing those identifiers as to prevent worshipping, that does not seem strong enough to make one see it as limiting in the same way the purpose behind that request. That is from the onset, while looking deeper into the use of the description "pagan", which is highly improbable to be the result of paraphrasing, adds more support to that he wanted to prevent being dehumanized and treated like object. For the man was not a follower of any traditional religion. So why would he single out the pagan description unless the point is or at least also includes the material and physical object association that is more common there?
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