Stavanger Bay Morgenstern Balding

"I never thought of it that way," Dwin remarked, repeating Heph's formulation of "stealing". "But, what do you think - after we have stolen life, whom does the body belong to then? I mean, if I died right here and now, and - if what I am told is right - that the soul travels and the shell remains here... does it really count as stealing, if I do not need my dead body anymore? Isn't it more like... recycling? Because stealing implies that the owner is still there with a claim. If I am not... then isn't it - my dead body - technically garbage that anyone can take?" now this was something. If one raided a graveyard with this perspective... would it count as immoral too?

"What would you like to become, when you die?" she asked. "Where do you want your soul to go and what you want your body to become?"