Question to Kim: I have one question. It is half mine and half my friend’s. Why do you think, it is necessary to have three days before burying the dead body? And for the same question, it is, like, do you think, have you thought about this, how you want to be buried?
Answer from Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 Lithuania Conference.
Kim: Well, in the Summit Lighthouse they had sort of a recommendation that the body should lie on ice for three days. Is that what you are talking about?
Not about ice, but in a lot of traditions it is that you need to have the body three days on the ground and then bury it. To keep it three days before, maybe burn it, or is it necessary to have three days before?
I would say no. I mean, I do not know why they say it is necessary.
I think it was because it was, like, maybe because a few hundred years ago they were not really sure that the body is dead.
That could be practical, because they actually had people who were buried alive. And they had, like, a little tube that went down and they could pull a string with a bell if they were alive. But that was in a different time where medical science was not as advanced as it is. Now they can determine if you are dead more accurately than before. I do not think it is necessary. I just think it is sort of a relic from the past. What the masters always recommend is that you cremate because it is easier for the soul to leave the body behind when the body is disintegrated.
Well, there are many traditions where they say that three days is the time for the soul to live, at least until your burial, so that you can see everybody who wants to say bye-bye and stuff. And there are 40 days where the etheric energy, like vital energy, needs to go. But you can cremate in the meantime or not. But the three days is really relating to the departure of the soul in the shamanic traditions, at least. Three days without touching the body, like leaving the body. It depends on the point of view. I am giving you the shamanic tradition.
There could be something to that, depending on the level of consciousness of the person. The more attached they are to the body, the more that it might be reasonable to have these three days. But there will still be some people that have such an attachment to the body they cannot let go. But I think if you are more spiritually mature, you will be able to let go of the body much more easily.
But then you can go into all kinds of considerations, because now you can say: “What if a person died suddenly in an accident and was young and was not prepared for it?” Then they might be more attached to it, whereas if it is an older person that is sort of at peace with: “Yeah, I am going to die soon and I am at peace with it”, that is different. It is one of those things I do not think you can give a hard and fast rule. I would personally not want to wait three days. Why? I mean, just get it over with.
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