Interesting to watch Anil Jasinghe explain about why only the cremation option is available or mandated by the health authorities in Sri Lanka. As Rauf Hakeem says, the WHO has mandated a choice of either burial or cremation, and thousands of bodies are being buried in the USA and Italy (for example). Are these countries ok for burial, in terms of their water table and composition of soil, uniformly? How does Jasinghe explain the recommendations of the WHO and his (and by extension the government’s) opposition to it based on bodies needing to be transported to suitable areas etc, to find good soil conditions? I sense something fishy here…