Makes you wonder how many people here actually "disappear " this way. I
must say it seems a very efficient and useful way to go. Wedgies would
have a picnic.
T.
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Subject: Vultures and humans
Should be more of it.
I wonder which birds would learn to dispose of human corpses if the
practice were introduced in Australia. I guess Black Kites in the
inland,
but what about coastal areas, it might take a while for suitable
predators
to learn of this new food source.
John Leonard
On 16/09/2009 8:46am, Scot Mcphee <> wrote:
> WARNING. DO NOT WATCH THIS VIDEO IF YOU ARE SQUEAMISH.
> This is a slide show of a Tibetan "Sky Funeral". There is a horde of
> hungry vultures that make short work of the body.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxyUqI0cS8s
> Another warning. IT IS VERY GRAPHIC and shows an ancient Tibetan
> funerary practice. DO NOT WATCH THIS VIDEO IF THE EXTREMELY GRAPHIC
> HANDLING OF HUMAN REMAINS CONCERNS YOU. Also the music is terrible;
> better to watch it in silence. But fascinating if you can stomach it.
> >From wikipedia: "The Tibetan sky-burial practices appear to have
> evolved out of practical considerations: a) most of Tibet is above the
> tree line, and the scarcity of timber makes cremation economically
> unfeasible; b) subsurface interment is equally difficult since the
> active layer is not more than a few centimeters deep, with solid rock
> or permafrost beneath it. The customs are first recorded in an
> indigenous 12th century Buddhist treatise known colloquially as the
> Book of the Dead (Bardo Thodol). Tibetan tantricism appears to have
> influenced the procedure."
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