Ex Atheist Stephen Hawking last will: I wish a Christian funeral...

[Defiance]

He was more agnostic than an atheist....

Not at all. In fact, he was actually of the belief that God can't exist. Why? Because, according to him, there was no time for God to exist before the big bang.

I am not making this up.

[Jägerstaffel]

An atheist doesn't choose a Christian religious funeral...for cultural reasons....

Some do. I probably will have one.

[Colonel Frank Grimes]

By Atheist logic, when you're done, you're done, it doesn't matter to be burried next to the ones you loved because you're already dead.

It matters to the family members who would like all relatives buried in the same place or simply as a show of respect for the person's memory. In this case it's a show of respect. It's not done for 'cultural reasons' in this instance. As someone already pointed out the article's title is misleading.

Anyway, debating someone's funeral cannot be a healthy thing.

Don't worry about it. Ghosts aren't real. You'll be okay.

[Colonel Frank Grimes]

The fact that someone choose a Christian funeral ( you don't need to call a magazine or newspaper explaining them you have changed your mind ) is enough to prove his conversion...

Gossip newspaper or any magazine or newspaper are not the sources of his deathbed conversion...

I would have a Christian funeral just to make family members feel at ease. It doesn't mean I believe in Christianity. I don't want to create any discomfort for them. If it makes them feel better, then why not? I'm dead. It doesn't effect me in any way.

[İrle]

Not sure why he needed to go through all those fuss about his funeral. Probably by the effect of his relatives. They need a place to go and cry over his rotten body.

[renaissance12]

Some do. I probably will have one.

It is the priest and Church that decide to grant a religious Christian funeral in the Church...

If you are muslim.. or not babtized or a Richard Dawkin's fan ( not an ex atheist who converted before dying ).. be sure that no Anglican-Catholic-( ect ) Christian priest will accept to grant a religious funeral inside a Church..

[renaissance12]

I would have a Christian funeral just to make family members feel at ease. It doesn't mean I believe in Christianity. I don't want to create any discomfort for them. If it makes them feel better, then why not? I'm dead. It doesn't effect me in any way.

You don't understand...
Any priest will ask your relatives about your faith.. If your relatives will lie they will be dishonest.... it is their problem.... not a priest problem..

[renaissance12]

Not sure why he needed to go through all those fuss about his funeral. Probably by the effect of his relatives. They need a place to go and cry over his rotten body.

You can be buried without any funeral cerimony..