The Gravedigger

Death too had a strange beauty to it. The Gravedigger had always found the dead to be perfect. No matter how they died, they were all peaceful in their death, and he often envied them in their peace. While he enjoyed his life, he often wondered what the peace of death was like. Being a digger in a ninja village, he saw many different bodies with many different ways to die. He saw them in all ages and saw funerals that were private and quiet to ones that held the entire village. As he continued digging in the darkening morning, he remembered the strangest funeral he had ever done...