We visited the sacred river in Kathmandu where over fifty eight bodies are cremated on average every day. You could see the cremation slabs extending as far as you could see down the river. The fancy one decorated with orange marigolds was being prepared for a rich man. It was on the other side of the river. The little boy in the river was searching for jewelry and gold that might have been scraped off with the ashes and remains of the dead bodies.

One group of pictures shows how a torch is put in the mouth and lit by the oldest son. A group of women were first saying their last good-byes in one of the pictures. We were up very close to this spectacle. Many fires were burning and the air was filled with smoke. There was a definite smell from the burning bodies that I will not forget.