Is the body really an earthly “tent,” as the Christian scriptures declare, a vessel, which without the spirit is only a corpse? Is a dead body destined to return to the earth, to become mineralized there, broken down into the elements from which it was made? How can our attitude toward the dead body, ashes, remains or bones become transfigured when the formula “ashes to ashes” ceases to be binding or perhaps is rewritten as “ashes to diamonds”?
