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> It's quite likely because we don't want natural predators to get used to the taste of human flesh. What do you suggest to dispose of human cadavers other tha
by gotchange 11y ago
> It's quite likely because we don't want natural predators to get used to the taste of human flesh.
What do you suggest to dispose of human cadavers other than burying them because other methods like incineration and the likes are not as economic as the former method?
- shawabawa3 11y agoThere's this method which is used in Tibet and a few other places https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_burial https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_burial
- gotchange 11y agoI had no idea that such practice existed, thanks for sharing! Not to take away any credit from your argument but not all places on Earth have mountains nearby. Also, I assume that since these nations and people live in mountainous terrains, they had to come up with a method to dispose of those cadavers in the face of land scarcity where they live.
- mhurron 11y ago> not all places on Earth have mountains nearby Zoroastrians also left them out to be eaten by nature. They build a small structure for it. Exposure of the dead is not that strange.
- cossatot 11y agoTibetans also do a water burial. The first time I was there, I was asking about eating fish and birds in addition to mammals, and was told, "Tibetans do not eat fish and birds because fish and birds eat people," which I first thought was a joke.
- vlehto 11y agoWhy would bronze age humans dispose corpses at all? Just drag them away so you don't get diseases. But every culture we know of disposed bodies in some way that wolves, lions and other big land predators could not eat them.
- kbutler 11y agoIsn't that idea just because we don't find or recognize remnants of burial practices from cultures that did allow predators to consume the bodies?
- 6502nerdface 11y ago> What do you suggest to dispose of human cadavers other than burying them...[?] Have you read Stranger in a Strange Land?
- logfromblammo 11y agoYeah, I'll do that when my friends' ghosts show up to tell me that I should do it. And even then, they might get run through another link in the food chain first--maybe even two--because I don't want spongiform encephalopathy (kuru).
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