It was a way to assure wail' uth and' comfort for the deceased in future spiritual travels, and a means of transporting the soul to Paradise. Cremation reassured primitive peoples who believed the dead could threaten the living. It enabled nomadic peoples to bring their ancestors' remains with them in their migrations. Today, especially in areas of high population density, cremation is being readopted as the acceptable disposition of the dead, the sanitary aspect of cremation has been wisely stressed. While offering economy, it also inspires reverence, and there is beauty in the ensuing memorial.
Fire is light, and light reveals to man the existence of the material universe.
Man is awakened each morning by the dawn or sun, and it seems to restore him to life. The light which is the life of men. The body, submitted to heat, therefore becomes light and so ascends to feed the stars. In the histories of all these cultures, we find stones relating to cremation, proving they carried on the tradition of their ancestors. It is reported that for a time in Denmark and other northern countries, cremation was a privilege reserved exclusively for princes and chief commanders.