Vintage Footage showing the process of the Sky Burial Ritual. Most likely occurring in Tibet
The Sky burial is a funeral practice most populary practiced in the provinces and regions of China including Tibet, Mongolia, Sichuan, and Qinghai, and also parts of India like Sikkim. It is a process in which a human corpse is placed on a mountaintop to decompose while exposed to the elements or to be eaten by scavenging animals, especially carrion birds like vultures and corvids.
The people who practice this tradition possess the mindset that there is no need to preserve the body, as it is now an empty vessel. Birds may eat it or nature may cause it to decompose. The function of the sky burial is simply to dispose of the remains in as generous a way as possible
This practice is believed to have been practiced for as many as 11,000 years, but there is little written evidence, or physical evidence, due to the fact that the remains are ingested by the vultures or other animals.
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this is strangely beautiful, it is an empty vessel and there isn't a point in preserving it.
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So you're saying you'd be ok with this if it was your loved ones? They're empty vessels after all..
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I personally think if my family member wanted this done, then I'd go out of my way for this to happen. I don't think there's anything disrespectful about this to the corpse. And im sure a lot of people who just want to return back to the earth without rotting in a box wouldn't mind this. This way you know for sure your body is being appreciated and put to good use
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i mean, i can't do anything with them
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Cool as fuck!! Nice post man
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Name: sky burial
Watch the video: dead bodies on land
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I think the idea is that there bodies are "buried" inside of the vultures or whatever else might eat them. And vultures like most birds roam the skies
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I get the point, just making a joke :P
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this is beautiful, I think it's a lovely practice
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Buzzards gotta eat same as a worm....
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That's life. Everything's gotta eat.
Nice vid
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Hmmm, wasn't some parts of this video shown on Banned! In america?
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This is fucking weird.
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id be pissed if some mfs let my body get eaten by some birds for dinner
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You're not shit next to me. My genes are just light years superior to yours and I don't even need to look at you.
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This is so disgusting and perverted! I give a fuck if this is a tradition, doing something like this to dead people is disgusting and sick!
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