Funerals in Bali are incredibly festive occasions—that celebrate the release of the soul to god—with huge processions of flower-decked people and floats. As Miguel Covarrubias wrote: "Strange as it seems, it is in their cremation ceremonies that the Balinese have their greatest fun. A cremation is an occasion for gaiety and not for mourning, since it represents the accomplishment of their most sacred duty: the ceremonial burning of the corpses of the dead to liberate their souls so that they can thus attain the higher worlds and be free for reincarnation into better beings.”

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