'there are ceremonies for every stage of balinese life but often the last ceremony (cremation) is the biggest. a balinese cremation can be an amazing, spectacular, colorful, noisy and exciting event. in fact it often takes so long to organize a cremation that years have passed since the death.
the body is carried from the burial ground to the cremation ground in a high, multi-tiered tower made of bamboo, paper, string, tinsel, silk, cloth, mirrors and flowers. at the cremation ground the body is transferred to a funeral sarcophagus; either the shape of a bull for a brahmana, a winged lion for a satria or a sort of elephant-fish for a sudra. finally up it all goes in flames: funeral tower, sarcophagus, body, the lot.' http://www.all-bali.com/culturecustoms.html
i'm excited :)
