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  • though i am a hindu i respect this people. it nothing to do with caste.

  • So they dump the ashes into the river where others take a bath??

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  • how would it smell? like a good foody smell or horrible?

  • Call me dirty and unclean? Cremate your own damn grandmother F*CK YOU!

  • Is it unclean to touch dead bodies there??? F****!!...there goes my dream of getting rich selling defibrillator in India...:(

  • what a shithole

  • whatever is being narrated in this video are prehistoric concepts.urban india or hindus for that matter dnt really follow these concepts of untouchables etc. any more.dnt make rotten comments unless nd until u hv seen d true inner picture.one or two stray incidents cant speak for an entire nation.hope some retards have the brains to understand that.nd dnt dare to belittle hindu culture.d roots are so deep and rich that ppl may hav to complete 100 life cycles,nd still wont b able to cover it all

  • whoever says ' fuck hindu culture' can go nd fuck themselves first.a set of youtube videos cant speak for d culture of an entire nation.d indian sub continent has d richest blends of culture.jst go nd turn d pages of history,that too if u can read(u illiterates).nd for those mofos who have taken d liberty of saying, hindus only burn dead bodies, ever heard of John Lennon,George Harrison,Kurt Cobain,Marlon Brando etc? They were all cremated and certainly they were not HINDUS.

  • @sandmanisback George Harrison was Hindu you're wrong .

  • OK, they talk about not touching dead bodies, yet they swim in a river where they dump the ashes. Sick bastards!

  • The body should be a holy object, I see it as a "gift" from God to us and our souls. This way we can undergo life, and prove to God we are worthy of going to the heaven, afterlife for eternity.

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  • @Pasguiroq because you were born in a different culture with different believes.If you were born there,you would think that putting a body in a box and burying it would be disrespectful.

    And they don't believe god wants them to worry to much about there bodies,'cause the soul passes through several bodies in different life times.

    Once again,if you were born there,not only would you do exactly the same,but also western believes like "one single life"or"only 1 god"wouldn't make any sense to you:)

  • do not touch there own relatives dead body wow but they will bath with cow urine.

  • isn't it just disgusting burn someone's dead body then search for jewellery in the ashes by a group of people who are untouchables? Not disrespecting any religion here. Just saying. How would you feel if it was your father's body!

  • For more information on crematories watch /watch?v=VsdeC79JjIg

  • They wont touch a dead body but they'll walk around BAREFOOT in utter filth & burnt body parts....ok, that makes so much sense! Why are 3rd world countries so into their traditions & rituals & yet, not into any kind of cleaning? GO BUY A FUCKIN MOP...YOU FILTHY PEOPLE! & take a freakin bath for Heavens sake...I can smell you people from here!

  • It must smell something shockingly disgusting when that happens. =/ I watched this to see what it was about, not to see a person being burnt. =/ I can't help but feel sad yet, disgusted.

  • "Stretching along the sacred Ganges"

    About that time I see trash floating through it. The same water they burn their dead, drink, piss, shit and bathe. What a wonderful society.

  • my grandpa just died today an hour after they pulled the plug, tomorrow we're going to cremate him and the thought of it is pretty disturbing

  • They don't have to worry about caskets or digging graves, but geez...

  • what a fucked up country! ewwwwwww

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  • I bet tourists are pissed if they chose to visit Sagacaka, India.

  • Even though I'm gonna be a funeral director, I'd shit my pants if I was just walking by the Ganges River and turned my shoulder to see a body burning in a stack of sticks.

    AND THEY JUST CALLED ME UNCLEAN AND UNTOUCHABLE! >=O FUCK THEM!

  • Those "unclean" and "untouchable" people need to tell the other people to fuck off and let them do their own dirty work....We will see how long they stay so stuck up then.....

  • @expostfactum

    i m sure u have an IQ = 30 ........ m sure u wud evolve too

  • @Crio2c5 I suggest you learn to spell before you start commenting on other peoples IQ

  • at least they don't burn people alive anymore, like hindus and christians did a couple centuries ago...altough there are still african christians who burn people alive for witchcraft. fuck religion, religion is for retards.

  • These people Need Jesus ..God Save them from this devil religion.

  • @taxmino huh! Christian....

    You should respect this religion... like they do with yours...

    Im catholic, and I respect ALL the ideas, including Voodoo and satanism... every mind is a diffeferent world.. don forget it.

    God Bless you.

  • @Eduardsal I respect the people since they are creations of the all might Jehova !

    But the disgusting demons and thier boss get no repect.

    How can you be catholic and have respect for darkness?

    You are lost my friend!

  • @taxmino Ok, I am lost, but you are nobody to condemn me right? this is YAHVEH job. Im not respecting the darkness, Im respecting the OTHER PEOPLE IDEAS. This topic (religion) is difficult to take, everybody have their own ideas also in the same religion. we both are going anywhere with this discussion. the best is to be IN GOD, without care of name that different religions use, at final is the same God!

    Bless you.

  • @taxmino Dude, if you are just going to said stupid things about other religions. Stop watching this videos

  • Ahhhhh!!! WHY DON'T YOU HUNGRY PEOPLE KILL THOSE COWS OVER THERE AND GET SOME FOOD, SHOES AND MILK,, PUT THOSE COWS TO WORK!!! HOW DO YOU THINK AMERICA BECAME WHAT IT IS!! LOL.. I BET SOME ONE IN THE PASS TOLD THEM THAT THE COWS WERE SACRED SO THEY COULD GET THE COWS FOR FREE FROM THE STREETS... OH.. THAT'S WHY MC'DONALS SELLS SUCH CHEAP HAMBURGERS IN THE U.S.A. AND IN OTHER COUNTRIES... I AM SORRY BUT INDIANS NEED A WAKE UP CALL..... WAKE THE FUCK UP PEOPLE!!! 

  • fuck all of you that think this is disgusting, if you think burial is a good way to do it then this earth would be fill with bones

  • fuckin tight bastards buy a proper cremator you wankers

  • Is there just one super racist little kid posting all of these comments??

  • why dont they purify themselves in the water of lake minnetonka?

  • dirty

  • When i die i wanna get cremated and have my ashes turned into a diamond.

  • Just stopped eating my curry chicken dinner after watching this.

  • cremation bad ideology ..the body still feeling after die

  • @babylonaliking dont talk like a cunt u silly retarded fucker

  • thats scary remind me of hell, why would they want to go to hell?????

  • Why they still using the caste in this modern world?

    what do they know about reincarnation if they still believe in caste?

    Zzz....

  • I'm long overdue for a return trip to the Maha Shmashan...Maha Karnika Ghat. Sitting in meditation here changed my life!

  • Omfg!!!!!

  • Burn em all, who cares anyway.

  • Fucking pakis burning wot a smell.they smell bad enuff wen they r alive

  • Wow

  • omg yuck......... absolute disgust...... to think they drink, wash bath and shit and piss in that river is disgusting.... especially how they dump the bodies and ashes in it aftwerwards... sick religion sick people

  • @misDONTJUDGEME pl read/learn about other religions and cultures before you comment. all across the world, most of the human and industrial wastes is dumped into the river/sea and the same is done here. that water is as bad or good as this water. for your information, people do not drink this water for consumption. yes, people do take a dip and wash. the bodies are cremated and not dumped into the river. the ashes remain in the crematorium, only a symbolic handful is put in the river.

  • Indians are fuck as hell they look and smell bad

  • fuck the caste system

  • a funny thing i notice here among the comments...... most people are afraid abt the fact that how much it hurts to be burned in fire after death...................but people pls understand...that dead bodies do not feel... is it rocket science?? huh!! ..and else than that do anyone think anyone is knowledgeable enough to comment about things they r nt aware of even ? hilarious.. m nt in favour of anythn but fire is better than slowly melting under soil eaten by rodents and bacteria..PERIOD

  • STEEEENKY !!!

  • I've worked in residential hotels and have been lucky enough to find a few bodies in my time that had been dead for a week or more in the summer.

    I couldn't imagine the STINK around that river with the hundreds of bodies they dump in it.

    Death is a smell you never ever forget. Roadkill has nothing over the smell of a human corpse. It' sticks in your nose for days.

  • @8Xtokadisko you are the ignorant,idiot =)

  • purifying their bodies in the river ?!! yeah right, that river is filled with ashes of the dead.. cleaning themselves in that waters aighhh... it gives me the goosebumps!!!

  • @Essopessso

    Ashes??? Dude, when they don't have firewood they just wrap the body and toss it in.

    arms, legs, torsos are a common sight in that river.

  • @jblackrupert

    wowww that is freakin` sick !!!!! I mean, what about the diseases one can catch because of the rotten bodies in the river?!! okey this is weird and scary >.<

  • @Essopessso

    Check out the other videos. Theres several of them with bloated bodies floating past boats with tourists.

    the boats bump right into them. Cows also. Feral dogs live off them

    Indians brush their teeth, bath and drink out the Ganges.

    Filthy fucking people and now their starting to do it in Queens NY. Theres videos of that too.

  • Bar ' B Que for Hindu pigs

  • us hawaiians consider that a luau..

  • @sameercid

    Errrrrgh ur right dats nasty shit man xx

  • FUCKING LOSERS....

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  • @Johnhenrey123 U FAG THATS TRUE, WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT, THE MOMENT THESE DIRTY HINDUS DIE THEY ARE SENT TO HELL TO BURN THE SHIT OUT OF THEIR ASSES.... LOLXXXXXXX

  • If no one except the "unclean lower cast" is allowed to touch the body, how did it get to the banks of the river? The families brought it according to this. If, by religious tenant, no one can touch a dead body can you imagine if these people weren't there do clean up? 

  • they are roasting the dead

  • 10x alah for islam

  • wat a disgusting religion an look at wat there doing burning the dead stupid smelly idiots

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  • HINDUS ARE LIKE FOOLS, RISKING THEIR LIVES IN THAT RIVER WHERE CREEPY CORPSES AND DEAD ANIMALS ARE THROWN....EWWWWWW WHY ARE THEY SO DUMB? SICK ASSHOLES

  • @ebonydiospyrosferrea no need to get fucking prejudice. god damn ignorant people piss me off.

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  • There is no such thing as fucking god.

  • shit hindu religion,,what the fuck with low cast? all hindus look sooo ugly and dirty,,they all are mother fucker low cast,,,,,,,,,,slave nation,,every foregner nation fucked u and ruled u,dirty bitches

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  • @Johnhenrey123 are you an idiot,,or u slept all time in india during ur visit, don,t be a pussy and open ur eyes and read history,,it has many fact and historical reasons which i gave allready comment, hindu nation is the dirties nation on the earth and they were ruled by every one

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  • @ThepashtunNN1

    u seem so educated... :)

  • all humans are the same this caste systems is outdated and balony furhter more cremation next life and so on is crazy and by the way am a muslim

  • Amazing how far the humam mind can go.....

  • The river is contaminated now how can they wash in the river or possibly drink from it , i mean no offense i'm crazy about the indian culture it's so facinating but i was only wondering

  • @parvati50

    Oh, but the Ganges river is HOLY and SACRED. The Hindu religion says so, therefore it must be true. So how can anybody say it's polluted?

  • i know this is crazy, but they live like this. its even hard for me to believe. but i just wish they'd clean that shit hole of a river up, people get STD's from that! :O

  • thats a crazy tradition they got there,but,HEY,we must respect other's opinions and traditions...lets accept everyone no matter what they believe,right?

  • @ChrisTheBest1992

    I have no respect for any philosophy, religion, or political system which maintains social inequality. The notion that here are different classes of people and that some must be treated as "untouchable" is barbaric, plain and simple.

  • @logik316 i agree with that,buddy...its kinda a backstep in the human progress,but...can anyone change that?

    those towns have that traditions for generations,of course that all people must be traded as equal,but the autorities doesnt care about that...and sometimes,conflict cant be avoided...

  • @ChrisTheBest1992

    yes...but thats easier said than done brother..

  • @playcard120 believe me,dude

    i know what im sayin'

  • @ChrisTheBest1992

    Yup, because from everyone else's point of view your tradition and believes are just out right weird and strange.

    Treat others how you would want others to treat you.

  • @ChrisTheBest1992

    Yup, because from everyone else's point of view your tradition and believes are just out right weird and strange.

    Treat others how you would want others to treat you.

  • @ChrisTheBest1992 Rubbish

  • @ChrisTheBest1992 Acceptance is overrated. Reason, freedom, and progress are what matters, everything else is BS. Cremation (and burial) is barbaric, and religion is for retards. Simple as that.

    (the alternatives to the lunacy of religion and deathism are transhumanism and cryonics, btw)

  • @Parapon3ra acceptance is overrated?

    look at the comments below,most of the guys post comments AGAINST the cremation,i know know thats a crazy tradition,BUT,we must respect what they think...BTW i believe its pointless to focus on reason,freedom and progress at the cost of RESPECT.

    religion is for retards?

    everyone have their tastes,some persons think like you,and other take the religion as life itself...

  • @ChrisTheBest1992 People who oppose this particular form of cremation, but are ok with 'modern' cremation or burial are hypocrites. I oppose the willful destruction of the dead in ALL its forms. Cryonics technology has been available since the late '60s, so why the hell aren't we using it? It's the 21st century; we can clone mammals and build massive particle accelerators, yet we still put our dead into the ground or fire like a bunch of stone age savages -- seriously, WTF!?

  • @ChrisTheBest1992 "i believe its pointless to focus on reason,freedom and progress at the cost of RESPECT."

    I believe you have it backwards: 'respect' without reason, freedom, and progress is pointless. The latter bring tangible benefits, like the internet and modern medicine, while the former is just a hollow, politically correct phrase that people use to make themselves look better.

    "religion is for retards?"

    Yes, that's the short version.

  • @Parapon3ra this is why i said that everyone have their preferences,we all have our personal opinion about several matters,i respect your opinion.

  • @ChrisTheBest1992 yes, let's accept those who believe that if you don't believe what they believe you should be put to death, stoned, burned, and whatnot. By the way, that is also written in the bible, not just the quran. and xtians killed tens of millions of people in the name of their god just like muslims did. Now xtians don't kill pagans, heretics, or witches anymore because they go to jail, as the state is separated by the church now, but if you go back a few centuries ago..wow! just, wow

  • @ChrisTheBest1992 yes, let's accept those who believe that if you don't believe what they believe you should be put to death, stoned, burned, etc. By the way, that is also written in the bible, not just the quran. and xtians killed tens of millions of people in the name of their god just like muslims did. Now xtians don't kill pagans, heretics, or witches anymore because they go to jail, as the state is separated from the church now, but if you go back a few centuries ago..wow! just, wow

  • @ChrisTheBest1992 I fully agree with you, we must respect other cultures and traditions but with all due respect, I feel nauseous now, actually, I think I'd faint if I were watching this in person.

  • I love how much wood is burned and how much disease is spread into the river, what a great idea.

  • @rolhinha1 Something burnt into ashes has nothing left to have diseases. It definitely pollutes the river, but then its part of a custom or should i say part of the vedas (Hindu Scriptures). This Place Varanasi has a Temple just next to the shore (It is said that till the time the smoke from burning dead bodies reach that temple, the world will exist and the day it stops, everything would disappear) ---- It is a belief, and I don't care if anyone thinks in crazy or stupid or whatever.

  • @aryasridhar007 Ohh so that's what they believe on?? Oh nooo....didn't you see the body parts flouting around on that NASTY "holy" RIVER....???? and it is not only ashes but plastics.. Ahhh that river looks insane!!!!! You are not only destroying the PLANET but Yourselves!! FUCKED UP PEOPLE!! You scared the shit out everyone who sees this video.... Where Humanity will GET like this???

  • @rolhinha1 Most pathogens die around 80c.

    Fire is 800+

    Just sayin.

  • @Serostern Come on man, didn't the bible say thow shall not judge???!!!

    

  • @LyonBalls The bible says a lot of stupid shit, your point is?

  • @Serostern Yes but in crematories .I am not sure about the temperature of the pyres but it takes 4 hours and more to reduce bodies to ash and still some bones and teeth are not disintegrated .

  • @MrsCoverdale666 That might be so, but they are still sterile.

  • eww they drink in that water

  • @LoliJRockDramaLover1 got natural vitamin 

  • I notice in every video first highest rated comments are respectful and the second is trolling

  • Holiest and most disgusting/polluted river on Earth.

  • Fascinating insight into a totally alien,(to me),culture.I find it uncomfortable to learn that the caste system makes some people worthy of only this kind of 'work',but if it means that,for the lower castes' it gives them an income & a way of acheiving a 'higher' status in their next reincarnation then I guess it works for them.It' s not for me to 'knock' other religions.It doesn't sit easy with me,the idea of a caste system but then I'm not Hindu!

  • Oh yea, I want to take a bath in this river which is nothing more than an open toilet.

  • Reincarnation? Don't think so; Islam is the only way to paradise.

  • that was the raw deal

  • That has to stink!!!!

  • @737pilot7 No more than burning a steak on a bbq.

  • O_O I wouldn't do that to my mom

  • @luigi336able because u are not hindu.

  • also whwn they are wearthy to reach the highest level there for they unite with brahman thats the real name look it up.lol

  • we are learning about this in school if they have jobs with handaling the dead they are considered untouchables.when ever they are entering an area they must bang to stick togeather so evreone will stay clear and not go near them.nobody can touch them or go near them! kind of mean lol

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  • @Bombeni

    You might want to visit a local Bible based church and ask.

  • @Bombeni Well, no! Bodys belong to the sacred sand! which is the cementery.

  • with part of india is it? love the scenery.

  • @ASHRAFFKLEIN esm el mant2a varnasi 3end ganga river, ma3rof be nahr el ganeh bel hind

  • hey guys

  • all of this caste system that is still very much a live in India is beyond stupid

  • u guys shud comment bad only if you have studied and understood hinduism more than a hindu itself. Read Geeta at least once and then tell hindus whether they shud bury or burn the dead bodies.

    Like you all find burning a body as disgusting, Hindus find burying a body as most disrespectful thing, Making your parent a dinner of worms and bacteria. whatever happens body is dead and without soul so it doesnt matters if that is a dinner of some other being or burnt. DEAD BODY WON'T FEEL ANYTHING !

  • That is fucking groty :/

  • That's sad and kinda creepy and lol the cow

  • It's quite interesting... But I couldn't watch it being done. Imagen the smell...

  • @petalovespongy ya i burned myself once on the arm and burned some hair from my brush and it did not smell very good... -_-

  • different cultures is fine. But this is kinda disgusting.

  • Now these folks live in reality. Here is the US, it's almost as if "pretty them up and pretend they are sleeping". This may be comforting for most, but somehow I think it would be better to recognize death for what it is. Just my opinion, ya understand.

  • Reincarnation my ass

  • @catsowner12345 reincarnation is real thats how old soul exist

  • @AntiGDYB

    Have u seen the reincarnation work

  • @TheLovetheduck People with Old souls are reincarnations I know Heath Ledger was one

  • @catsowner12345 I am the reincarnation of Jesus. I just don't give enough of a fuck to do anything about it :)

  • @kojongau Your sick and your gonna have to answer to this one!!!

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  • @catsowner12345 Hell and heaven too...

  • @catsowner12345 you think you can understand a thousand year old civilization and philosophy fm a 4 min video? u r crazy and nuts.

  • @catsowner12345 LIVE AND LET LIVE

  • d..do they eat the bodies?

  • I have no problem with indians except for the stupid class system. Fuck that makes me mad. It doesnt matter how high we think we are. We all end up dead.

  • youtube.com/watch?v=DlcybIRxs4­I

  • Americans Like me see this as Twisted, they see it as a Normal Farewell ceremony. Nothing wrong with that, to each there own I say...

  • Smells like steak. (: Did you know that human flesh tastes like sweet pork? Yum.

  • @GaiaGold3 quite true, however certain parts do, fleashy fatty parts have no taste, its the meater chum=nks as in the upper arm, lower legs and testicles, in corenor school that is huge with inner studies, why do they want us to know???? its part of the decomposition.

  • i'm a hindu and i live in trinidad. Our cremation sites are well pianted clean platforms where we burn the bodies. If you know the temple in the sea in tinidad there is a cremation site next to it.

  • I was born in an hindu family but fortunately i met few sikhs friends who introduced me to sikhism. Sikhism has answers to the welfare of humanity and doesnt have disgusting concepts or rituals or stories like hindusim. Wahey guru da khalsa wahey guru di fateh!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @Rohit84up who the fuck gives a shit

  • People can be very rude sometimes.

    Get a grip satan little child.

    

  • thats why ppl shouldnt believe in religion...nothing good comes from that... i feel sorry for them and for not realizing this is wrong what their doing ... even if u have one God or many this isnt right ..my opinion...

  • so scare...

  • @nutsandguts bbq sause....what?? i dont understand?

  • Needs more BBQ sauce.

  • @NutsandGuts  yeah right LoL! :D

  • damn.. wished i could bath there with those hot MILF.....

  • I wanna go to heaven cos Shane Dawson is christian and i will finally meet him :D

  • I wanna donate some of parts to needy people then the rest can be burned.Then my family can use the ashes to help grow something...like a tree...I guess that'd be a good way of giving back to the earth :D

  • @KoukiBuri I like that too. :-) Ashes are buried under trees etc if you like. (my nan and pa are together under a tree at the crematorium that has beautiful grounds to walk through and wildlife).

  • @o0portal0o aww >.< sweet!

  • @cody1800212 wet all all over  simple as that

  • The cremated people are hotheads. Someone made an ash of them. Talk about putting someone's feet to the fire. Give them fever medication--they're burning up!

  • i feel sorry for the people that are poor

  • 0:24 i almost lost my shit

  • they would die to cremate b a baracus