Some of the most important rituals relate to the dying and the dead. The ghats provide
he places of cremation. The burning embers
of the cremation pyers alongside the riverbank provide people with a powerful symbol of the integral relation between life and death.Death in the Indian imagination is considered as a crossing over from one state into another;
and the fear of death is considered to be an irrational fear. Once the body disintegrates, the ashes are immersed into the Ganges.The final immersion into the womb of the Ganges symbolises a new creation out of the waters of life.