2018-12-20 2:11:08 ¶ ● ⬈

dingodad:

> probable main alternian cadaver religions:

> corpse agnosticism / apathy: most common. “i dont think the ghost cares what happens to its corpse”. corpses are left outside to be eaten or stolen or whatever according to the traditional alternian method

> decompositionism: still common, but a minority belief. “i believe ghosts prefer to have their corpses return to the soil / Alternia”. might have some complications throughout the galaxy: maybe orthodox decompositionists ONLY want their body to be buried on alternia, whereas “reform” decompositionists will have their body buried on any planet?

> cremationism: uncommon; practiced mostly by members of the christian sufferer cult and their descendants. “i believe the ghost cannot properly manifest until the body is destroyed.” might also have a reincarnation aspect to it; since followers of the signless believe he will be reborn one day, maybe the ghost cannot return into a new body until the old body is gone?