Cremation

In India, only members of a lower caste can touch dead bodies. And it is these people who must perform cremations.

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[kidkong584]

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!

[Eduardsal]

@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.

[hateis632]

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

[SoulRebel193]

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

[spaik007]

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

[Serostern]

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

[MrsCoverdale666]

@frsmynameiskhan Suttee is forbidden . It is very rare . India is following the way of modernization.

[MrsCoverdale666]

@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]

@sandmanisback George Harrison was Hindu you're wrong .

[ChristewieTV]

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

[Tusiriakest]

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