Will Falconer, DVM Moderator
Thanks Elle. I saw my first funeral pyre in India on my last visit, and it was extremely moving. Of course, I was very close to the one on there, as my guru had left his body after 91 years. It's an amazing perspective to see someone's ashes after a cremation, and realize our bodies are so physical, so temporary, so of the earth. We are so much more.
We have indeed done some strange things in the West with our dead. A big subject, wrapped largely around confusion over who we are.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Elle.