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Not much can beat a sky burial. Tibetians sometimes still do it. If you search around, you can find a photo sequence documenting it. The only notable modernizat
by burfog 7y ago
Not much can beat a sky burial. Tibetians sometimes still do it. If you search around, you can find a photo sequence documenting it. The only notable modernization is plastic aprons for the workers. They strip and slash the body, then step back and let vultures eat. After the vultures have left only large bones, the workers smash up the bones with a bit of oatmeal in a bowl. The vultures like that too, ultimately leaving nothing uneaten.
- wintergrasp 7y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_vulture_crisis https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_vulture_crisis
- salty_biscuits 7y agoI went to a place where they did that when I was younger. We were visiting a monastery and were told to be respectful because there was a sky burial going on while we were there. We decided to just look around but to keep away from the ceremony. I was really out of it with altitude sickness so I was just sitting looking down at this gorgeous valley near the bus, while the people I was with went to look around the monastery. Then I could see all these vultures flying away with little bits of meat. Very surreal experience.
- colesdefectum 7y agoSome skydivers will have "ash dives." Your body is cremated, ashes placed into a specially designed pouch, and friends take you up on a final skydive. Everyone exits, joins up in a formation with your pouch making up one of the links, and at some point in free fall the pouch gets opened. You're quickly scattered to the ends of the earth from a couple miles up. Even though there's no cremation involved, Tibetan sky burial sort of reminds me of that.