The Burnt Offering

Humans decorate the body- perfume it, pamper it, glorify it.  In all these rituals it still will not deter death.  Death comes like a thief and robs one of his youth.  Its image plagues the mind with irrational fears.  When man's illusion of his body is no longer adorned and worshiped; his soul will rise up from the burnt offering as smoke.  The body is shed like a 'snake skin' with no fear of mortality.