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bad can that be " even, if it is the wrong q uestion deserves a n
answer. My thinking that cre mation awakens unpleasant
me mories associated to the not so recent past, and in my youth
considered despicable. Maybe it's the images of soap or clothing
fabricated fro m and holy scrolls and souls. The tradit ion o f
culture from Far East Asia considers it an honor to the deceased
to celebrate cre mation cere moniously, so how terrible could it
be? I'm only left with a question whether my everyday feelings
will withstand the culture conscious negativity that ident ifies
my estimation of what can be the right course to pursue.
We have arrived to the trespass at the pinnacle of absolute
absurdity. Is burial an honor to the deceased and what do we
have to say about euthanasia where it is permissible according
to state law? Would cre mation not satisfy the process of one's
disintegration from matter into pure energy? On the one hand,
we can say a gentle process is meant to assure the terminatio n
between the body functions and the soul essence, more to be
praised than a q uick flight into ash. Of course, we're speaking
of energies of life processes that became freed upon expression,
and re main in their manifestation nothing but forms of energy
transference.
Of the established cere monies that pertain to mourning mos t
are intended to offer what co mfort can be achieved upon the
departure of so meone from the realm of conscious sensitivity
awareness. Most of these procedures are intended to sustain a
sense of immortality, yet, there is grieving - even though all
forms of existence that breathe, and ingest earthly substance;
always reach a point of no return at which time their physiology
undergoes transformation and transfiguration into silence
stillness. Whether one can believe that reincarnation is possible
or not, perhaps cremation speeds the process of the soul's return
to a different existential prescience. I wonder if more than one
soul can emanate from a prior ancestor. Then we would have to
assume the intermingling of multiple souls in a singular huma n
being. Maybe that I AM.
The true task of my search within an unfathomable so ul
essence is to determine what good it may be to me, and knowing
it well enough to live my being in accorda nce with its value to
my life. Writing this book is of value intrinsic to myself, I AM
detached fro m pain and negative emotion and do little to enable
myself to enjoy the obverse, subversive, perverse, or temporary
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