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Sky Burials in Tibet

Sky Burials in Tibet

All funerals are sad and creepy, but they’re way better than feeding the corpse to a bunch of hungry eagles. Sky burials are often practiced in the mountains of Tibet, both for religious and practical reasons. Basically, the corpse is placed on a mountain top and sliced open in various places, to attract the birds of prey circling above. [...]