As a human makes more and more good choices in his life, he gets closer to salvation. Once a person has died and achieved salvation, there must be a "purification of body and soul, and a preservation of the purity of the sacred elements, fire, earth and water" ( Williams, 202). “The corpse could not be buried, nor burned, nor thrown into water, as such an act would result in the defilement of any of these elements. It must be displayed on the Dakhma (grave or place of display of the dead. To dispose of it otherwise would be to incur a mortal sin” (Williams,