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The reason we have cemeteries is the idea of remembering.

Different cultures have different ways of burying their dead, disposing of the body.

The community that Freddie Mercury was a part of, the Zoroastrians, in Bombay, he lived in Eastern Africa.

But in Bombay, they have what's called a tower of silence.

And it's like a cylinder, like a silo.

And bodies are hung, like on a meat hook, as I understand it, inside there.

And the buzzards will come into the silo, go down into it, and eat the body.

And that is the way that they dispose of their dead.

It's an honor to the body and the way they do it.

I'm sure that's gross to some people.

There are all sorts of different ways that we dispose of the dead.

But in most cultures, in one way or another, we have manners by which we remember those who died.

You know, you think of the great poets and that their words lived on.

Long before photography, long before we had a way to properly memorialize.

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