Sky burial
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Sky burial is a funeral practice in which a corpse is placed on a mountaintop to decompose while exposed to the elements, or to be eaten by scavenging animals, especially crows, vultures, bears and ja
A sky burial site in Yerpa Valley, Tibet
Drigung Monastery, Tibetan monastery famous for performing sky burials
Vultures feeding on cut pieces of body at a 1985 sky burial in Lhasa, Tibet
Corpse being carried from Lhasa for sky burial c. 1920
Disposal of human corpses
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The disposal of human corpses, also called final disposition, is the practice and process of dealing with the remains of a deceased human being. Disposal methods may need to account for the fact that
Sky burial
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Takabuti, an Egyptian mummy from the 7th century BC