A rope is coiled on warm stone beside deep blue-green harbour water.

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Edina

No, no..no grave for me, sweetie. I'm a Buddhist anyway. I want to be lain out on a rock in the middle of the Ganges, darling, and then just pecked by birds. I don't want to end up as some drugged-up zombie in a hospital, alright?

— Absolutely Fabulous ‧ 1992

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker imagines an open-air, bird-attended end by the Ganges and rejects a feared hospital death. These are personal fictional wishes and assumptions, not a verified Buddhist practice or a medical forecast.

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