Why a skull bead? Some people look at the malas with a certain
curiousity when they see a swastika or a skull...I have explained the
swastika in another post but the skull is meant to have the meditator
reflect on death and impermanence and know that death is a fact and the
closer that we can relate to death and embrace it the sooner we can
start living with love and compassion and realizing that in this cyclic
existence death will come when it is time...live life and embrace death.