Pashupatinath, Nepal
Writing about something i really know nothing about, that being death, presuming to know would just make me a liar, all i do know that it is said, is to live this life as if it is my last, reaching understandings without belief, understanding through humanistic behavior to me is the key, watching others only gives me more of an insight into the one that has passed away, their overwhelming emotions, their purity in setting the one they love free.
In Nepal when someone dies, the families have only 24 hours to mourn over their loved one, within this time limit the families make their way to the river at Nepal's holiest place Pashupatinath with their loved one in hand, this is where the oldest sibling is singled out to take full responsibility showing how to let go of, "you are apart of me as i am apart of you" this emotion is severed through placing fire on the face of the loved one in an act that needs to be selfless, the oldest sibling is there to experience the hole process from the start to the finish, which takes up to 3 hours for the body to break down by using fire, once the body is no longer a visual entity, the ashes are swept into the river in which the Nepalese feel that this cleanses and frees the soul.
