When a human being makes more and more right choices in his life, he gets closer to salvation. Once one has died and achieved salvation, there must be a “purification of body and soul and 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, since such an act would involve contamination of one of those elements. It must be displayed on the Dakhma (tomb or place of exposure of the dead. To otherwise dispose of it would mean incurring mortal sin" (Williams,