Originally Posted by
foreigneRS
i'm not sure that anyone is trying to get them to change their minds about that
nothing wrong with it, but why do it on top of water where it's quite clearly likely to fail? why not burn them in a big oven and use the heat from them instead of cow shit to cook up the old naan bread?
It is part of there religion, hindu
http://robertfrancisco.com/2009/11/06/burning-bodies/
from what I can make out it has to be done on the Ganges river the holiest hindu river, or a river that runs into the Ganges river