"Disaster" <disaster@disfanfic.net> wrote in 
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> "Frank White" <fwhite*NOSPAM*@colfax.com> wrote:
>> Shi also means 'death'.  The Japanese get nervous about
>> reminders of death (don't stick your chopsticks straight
>> up in a bowl of rice - that's what's done for offerings
>> to the dead - or pass things from one pair of chopsticks
>> to another person's - that's what they do with the bones
>> of loved ones after cremation) and try to avoid them.
> 
> Ummmmm, what bones? Cremation doesn't leave any bones!
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> 
There is many times a few small chunks left, nothing like a intact bone 
just little pices.

Sakaki