On Sunday 23 Aug 2009 12:16:55 am Amit Varma wrote: > If someone wakes up during his own cremation and finds it funny, I guess he > would be ROTFB.
More often. such a person would die during his cremation, even if he was ROTFL at the start. But there is a more serious point about pollution. I suspect (without proof) that 80% of all cremations in India are done with firewood and with Hindus wanting to either die in Banaras or wanting their remains to be disposed there the corruption on the funeral business is extreme (I am told) So you have half burned bodies being flung into the Ganga (and to save firewood) I'm guessing that the ghat - the riverside pedestal on which the cremation takes place gets purified by flinging the body into the river and the moolah flows in as the next stiff comes in sooner. shiv
