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[Fishead soup]

A Sky Burial allows the remains of the deceased to re-enter the food chain. Currently there are two kinds of sky burials performed. One is by Farsi's in Mumbai in India. The body is tied to the Towers of Silence where vultures pick away at the remains.

In Tibetan Buddhism the body is taken to a high place where it is cut up and fed to the vultures.

Personally I think this is awesome.

[Chris_Dixon]

Vultures arent the most angelic animal???

It seems pretty savage to me really. They are friggen dirty, ugly animals....And yay at being the one to slice up the body and feed them.


I think there are better ways to enter the food chain.

[Chris_Dixon]

"In one account, the leading rogyapa cut off the limbs and hacked the body to pieces, handing each part to his assistants, who used rocks to pound the flesh and bones together to a pulp, which they mixed with tsampa (barley flour with tea and yak butter or milk) before the vultures were summoned to eat.

In several accounts, the flesh was stripped from the bones and given to vultures without further preparation; the bones then were broken up with sledgehammers, and usually mixed with tsampa before being given to the vultures. Many rogyapa first feed the bones and cartilage to the vultures, keeping the best flesh until last. After having had their fill of good quality meat, the birds usually fly away - leaving the bones and less favored bits."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_burial

[RACETRAITOR]

You forgot the part that the monks generally sing and be merry while they dismember the corpse with axes and pound the harder to digest parts with mallets.

It's all very black metal.

[Troll_Bait]

When you live on a rocky mountain with no soil for burials and no trees for cremations, you have to get creative.

[Chris_Dixon]

[hungrybeaver]

I've heard the lyrics to the songs the monks sing are about such fun things as impermanence and the nature of life and death, the fact that everyone suffers, karma, and the preciousness of life.

Sounds like a real party.

[jvalmer]

I believe there is a native tribe in Alberta that used to practice sky burials, way back. But, when the euros arrived, they put a stop to it.

[Underwaterbob]

Burial at sea. There's plenty in the ocean willing to eat a human corpse.