The shared center — held across the tradition
The body is borrowed matter.
Nothing you are made of was made for you, and none of it stops when you do.
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Giving it back well is the last ethical act.
Burial that feeds something is not a preference about funerals. It is the final entry in a life of taking.
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Tend something that outlasts the tending.
A pile, a plot, a grave. The rite is maintenance, not ceremony.
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Cosmos & Afterlife
how reality is built, and what follows deathThe nature of reality
Matter in circulation — nothing leaves the system
After death
Return — you continue as what grows