Geneva Polser - Cold Fever

After watching the movie it made me think of rituals that we do for our dead and why we do them. I have attended many funerals and had many people pass on in my lifetime. Each one has a different feeling a different experience as a whole. For one friend there was no funeral, his wife had him cremated and kept his remains in the garage until she was ready to deal with it. Once she was we all went out to Lake Meade in Nevada, one of his favorite places, and spread his ashes in the water once out in the middle of the lake. To spread the ashes where the individual loved to be is one of the newer rituals for our dead. In the past we have preserved our dead to look exactly how we think they should then placing them in the earth for eternity. That ritual seems more for us mourning then for lifting the spirits of the dead. In the movie he seemed to have the travel for himself but the ritual for both. To let his parents spirit rest peacefully and for his guilt to be released. The ritual he performed was without the bodies and more for their honor as spirits. I think that is one of the best kind of things you can do.