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Post by Cat on Aug 24, 2009 0:09:59 GMT
Travel Blog Article on Sky Burials. Beware if you are sqeemish. I found it really interesting and I thought I should share it, and of course, wondered you guys's opinion on it. I think it's a little different, but if it's a tradition it should stay, instead of being banned like some people have suggested it be. I think though this should be a more private ceremony and certainly not open for tourists, although if it were, I'd want to go see it. And I'm not sure why.
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Post by Elliot Kane on Aug 24, 2009 0:40:09 GMT
Oh, yes. Heard of this. I certainly don't see why it should be banned, any more than any other form of burial/cremation/whatever.
It may sound a bit awful to those of us unfamiliar with the idea, but in a place with little arable land, few flat areas and not a lot to burn, what are you gonna do? The origins being obvious, I'm fine with it.
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Post by fughawzi on Aug 24, 2009 9:21:59 GMT
You didn't put this in the humour section?
You have no self respect, honestly.
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Post by The Sonar Chicken on Aug 24, 2009 12:45:13 GMT
Hmmm... ohh, yes... the Tibetians' ways of "burials". *shrugs* It sounds unappealing to some but I could care less.
Besides, in past times, didn't people use to bury their dead somewhere in pits where their flesh would return to nature(after being gnawed off into pieces by worms, insects, animals and goodness knows what)? It's the same concept: returning to nature though a bit more grisly.
Does it matter though? Cremating someone likely creates pollution of some sort and burying a dead body in a pit/coffin creates a host for bacteria that could still lurk around for hundreds if not thousand of years and start off a plague or two, if released. A way out would be to invent a method that'd reduce a body back into atoms, molecules, etc. but I dunno how safe it would be: what if it vaporises everyone and everything within a certain perimeter?
One could also try dumping the body into the sea but... that's kinda gross... I mean: the fishes would literally feast on it and since many eat fish, isn't that like "indirect cannibalism"?
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Post by Glance A'Lot on Aug 24, 2009 14:54:10 GMT
It appears to me as a most natural, clean and practical way to dispose of bodies.
When thinking that 'Ceremonial Burial' was a civilisatory advance in the game Civilization, and I think of the waste of good materials that entails (From entire pyramids in ancient Egypt, to jewels, armor and weapons in our areas, to coffins out of perfectly good wood, that would otherwise be used for furniture, and dressing the bodies up in clean and new linnen and satin...) what we do is pure luxury.
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Post by kitty on Aug 24, 2009 17:54:32 GMT
I'm cool with it, although I wouldn't want to watch when my grandma is eaten...
But I wonder, that can only work with "healthy" dead bodies, right? A dead body having been in water for some days or someone died of smallpox can't be so healthy for the birdies?
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Post by Glance A'Lot on Aug 24, 2009 22:29:09 GMT
vultures have a strong stomach - they are carrion birds, after all.
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Post by kitty on Aug 25, 2009 5:01:00 GMT
Hm ok, they also seem to have no ability to smell.
Btw folks, if you have a weak stomach, don't google the sky burial thing...
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Post by Glance A'Lot on Aug 25, 2009 12:49:41 GMT
they also seem to have no ability to smell.On the contrary, it's just that the (to us nauseating) smell of rotten flesh is like freshly baked cake to us for a carrion bird...
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Post by kitty on Aug 25, 2009 12:50:39 GMT
they also seem to have no ability to smell.On the contrary, it's just that the (to us nauseating) smell of rotten flesh is like freshly baked cake to us for a carrion bird... Hmmm cake... <spam>
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