Aaya Malass’s Reviews > From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death > Status Update

“Since religion is the source of many death rituals, often we invoke belief to denigrate the practices of others..... I have come to believe that the merits of a death custom are not based on mathematics, but on emotions, a belief in the unique nobility of one’s own culture. That is to say, we consider death rituals savage only when they don’t match our own.”