The body on the slab, doesn't care how it got there. There is no shame, no regret, no embarrassment and no pretense, the body on the slab is dead. The body does not care what you think, what you do or how you treat the corpse, it's just a body. Just a shell, just the shape that once lived, laughed and loved. You can spend a fortune on the body, you can spend not one penny on it, either way the body will return from whence it came. Dust returns to dust and ashes return to ashes. The Phoenix rises from the ashes, so if we are to return to ashes and we speak of reincarnation, are we the phoenix that rises once again? Dust to dust and from this Earth we are created, can we conclude there are two that walk this land and though different, both are the same. The comparisons runs deep, but there are subtle differences for the dust shall return to the dust and the ashes shall return to the ashes giving birth to new life as the Phoenix rises and dies and rises and dies. Ashes cannot be...