At least in the Christian way one gets a second chance. Maybe silver the first
time, than gold.
BC
> VJP,
> The scattering of the ashes is only ceremonial. It is the final farewell.
> It serves a purpose.?
>
> My sweet ancestral village of Colvale has a graveyard that measures 50 ft
> by 75 ft. Every Colvale Christian of the past 500 years has been buried,
> and dug up there. The dug up remains are then thrown into a well. These
> remains are then doused with petrol and set on fire every x number of years.
>
> On the environmental side, that tiny graveyard has served the village
> well, conserving the land available for growing food. On the spiritual
> side, there is no rest for the dead as we are assured that they will be dug
> up, and shifted, in three years.
>
> In this regard, the Hindu's have got it right. One ceremonial departure,
> and then nothing more to contend with.
>
