In 2018 while while driving my motorscooter in Bali, I was fortunate to come across a Hindu ceremony called Ngaben. The air was thick with smoke and hundreds of people were gathered at a small cemetery. Each person and child seemed to have a task to carry out at some stage of the day.
Having been dead for some 5 or 6 years, the skeletal remains of the deceased are dug up from shallow graves. Each body is allocated a number, placed on a table in baskets and cremated.
Once the cremation is completed the remaining ashes and small bone fragments are cooled and laid on tin where relatives and family gather them into elaborate containers .
Later in the afternoon a huge procession is held where all the remains are taken to a beautiful beach.Further prayers and ceremonial activities are carried out and eventually as the sun sets the urns are taken on local small boats out to sea and scattered . The reincarnation process can begin..