Pashupathinath Cremation
The Bagmati River is the preferred place for cremating
bodies in Kathmandu. Kathy was not pleased with all
the tourists taking pictures, but I didn't resist. I had
never seen someone getting cremated.. Please forgive
my offense...
I noticed that the person lighting the funeral pyre appeared to be a
young man. It is the duty of the oldest son to cremate
his father.
This picture reminded me that one night, coming home from a nightclub around
midnight, our headlights caught a glimpse of 6 men
running beside the road, in the dark, carrying something
in a white sheet on their shoulders.
I was told it was a body. Someone had died and the
body needed to be cremated within 24 hours. The men
were carrying the body to the river and would be
running until they got the body safely to its destination.
