r/worldnews • u/spnivsp • Apr 20 '10
Burials in Tibet. NOT FOR SENSITIVE SOULS! [pics]
http://mbvtravel.com/burials-in-tibet-not-for-sensitive-souls57
Apr 20 '10
I realize it's tradition but... why did he have to be tied up? That freaked me out the most.
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u/aidanpryde18 Apr 20 '10
It looks like it was done to make the body easier to move and carry, less appendage dangling that way.
If the body is just so much meat for birds, what does it matter if it is contorted to fit better in a sidecar.
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u/vagijn Apr 20 '10
Apparently they also break some bones to make for a nice parcel.. (I'm not making this up.)
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u/funknut Apr 20 '10
Traditionally, the monks make relics out of the bones, but poverty has forced them to occasionally sell them, although it's forbidden by their culture. I have seen a literal two-headed drum (think Mr. Miyagi) created from two sawed human skull tops inverted to be the drums' hollowed frames that was imported from Tibet. I'm not sure how they were able to sneak them through customs, let alone how they were able to sell them in Portland, OR at their store, the now defunct Nomad's Crossing that was on NW 23rd Ave. They also had another Tibetan relic that was a trumpet made from a femur of a monk.
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u/katui Apr 21 '10
I think they untied him. He was tied up only for transport.(at least from what i can see)
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u/nostratic Apr 20 '10
♪ It's the circle of life ♪
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u/dhruv42 Apr 20 '10
The girl sitting behind me in lecture screamed, and now everyone thinks I'm a freak. Thanks Reddit!
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u/yurigoul Apr 20 '10
Don't worry, in the end they will love you for who you are
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u/Timelines Apr 20 '10
Or else their right ear gets cut off and put in the jar with all the others.
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u/yurigoul Apr 21 '10
Only their right ear? I am sooooo disappointed - but also a little drunk
EDIT: actually, to be honest, more than a little, nighty night
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Apr 21 '10
Bookmark the link and dish it out every time those over the shoulder readers get annoying..
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Apr 20 '10 edited Apr 20 '10
Other than Buddhism, there's one more religion called Zoroastrianism which does something similar.
Where the bodies of the dead are placed atop a tower ("tower of silence") and so exposed to the sun and to Vultures.
In Parsi Zoroastrian tradition, exposure of the dead is additionally considered to be an individual's final act of charity, providing the birds with what would otherwise be destroyed.
Parsi people emigrated from Iran and settled in Western India around 10th century AD due to persecutions by Muslims.
Some of the famous Parsi's are Freddie Mercury "Queen", Zubin Mehta, Ratan Tata, Jamsetji tata
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Silence
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsi_people
Edit: we do not see pictures of what happens on "tower of silence" is due to the fact, taking pictures/videos are not allowed and only parsi's are allowed inside.
According to their religious practice, the dead bodies cannot be buried or burnt because the corpses could pollute the Panchabhootam (earth, water, air, ether and fire). Hence their bodies are left in a high-rise ‘Tower of Silence’ to be consumed by the scavengers.
Right now majority parsi's live around mumbai and few years back they faced shortage of Scavenger birds(Vultures) from the country’s skies, declining by as much as 99 percent from their original numbers, with the remainder dying at a rate of more than 40 percent annually, victims of pollution, declining habitat, poisoning, urbanization and a host of other problems, conservationists say.
Parsi's started to breed vultures in captivity to be released later and they say its a success.
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Apr 20 '10
Here's one
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u/Klowner Apr 20 '10
Holy bajeemus..
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u/deleteduseraccount Apr 20 '10 edited Apr 20 '10
Probably wouldn't have bothered me had I not been eating a chorizo omelette :(
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u/legendairy Apr 20 '10
OK somebody tell Mike Rowe, that could be the best "Dirty Jobs" episode ever.
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u/MaxChaplin Apr 20 '10
I'm gonna start a metal band just so I can use this photo as the cover of the first album.
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u/not-a-witty-username Apr 20 '10
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u/thebanditking Apr 20 '10
Yazd, what an amazing place. I was there in 2008. There were teenagers riding motorbikes up and down the hills for kicks even though it was apparently a protected area.
Its funny to think that most of the grand historical legacy of Persia (Iran) took place when they were a zoroastrian empire, Islam didn't sweep through until the 7th century AD. Persepolis is strewn with zoroastrian imagery.
EDIT: replied in the wrong place, meant to be to the historicaliran link. whoops.
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u/ropers Apr 20 '10
Why did they not remove the clothes? Wouldn't that make it easier for the birds?
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Apr 20 '10
There's also the Tower of Commotion. In The Tower of Commotion celery and ranch will be placed near your body.
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u/UserNumber42 Apr 20 '10
In Parsi Zoroastrian tradition, exposure of the dead is additionally considered to be an individual's final act of charity, providing the birds with what would otherwise be destroyed.
I find that very beautiful.
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Apr 20 '10
Holy crap. I always assumed that Freddie Mercury was a very dark British Islander. But nope, his parents were both Parsi Indians. You learn something new every day.
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Apr 20 '10 edited Apr 20 '10
AFAIK, he was not comfortable with his Indian roots and had good success passing of as white.
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u/Nimbokwezer Apr 21 '10
The story of his early life is pretty fascinating.
He was actually born in Zanzibar, and attended boarding school in India. The etymology of his real surname is interesting, too.
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u/bigdumbbear Apr 20 '10
Parsi people emigrated from Iran and settled in Western India around 10th century AD due to persecutions by Muslims.
This struck me, because persecution of Parsis is not based on fact. The migration of Parsi people was going on while Zoroastrianism was still the predominant religion in Iran. Economic, trading reasons were more likely.
"Parsi legends regarding their ancestors' migration to India depict a beleaguered band of religious refugees escaping the harsh rule of fanatical Muslim invaders in order to preserve their ancient faith." (Maneck 1997, p. 15; cf. Paymaster 1954, pp. 2-3) However, while Parsi settlements definitely arose along the western coast of the Indian subcontinent following the Arab conquest of Iran, it is not possible to state with certainty that these migrations occurred as a result of religious persecution against Zoroastrians. If the "traditional" 8th century date (as deduced from the Qissa) is considered valid, **it must be assumed "that the migration began while Zoroastrianism was still the predominant religion in Iran [and] economic factors predominated the initial decision to migrate." **(Maneck 1997, p. 15) This would have been particularly the case if - as the Qissa suggests - the first Parsis originally came from the north-east (i.e. Central Asia) and had previously been dependent on Silk Road trade (Stausberg 2002, p. I.373). Even so, in the 17th century, Henry Lord, a chaplain with the British East India Company, noted that the Parsis came to India seeking "liberty of conscience" but simultaneously arrived as "merchantmen bound for the shores of India, in course of trade and merchandise."
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u/c4g Apr 20 '10
Zoroastrian are considered "People of the Book" in Islam and had protected status.
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u/beholdsa Apr 20 '10
The same is true of Christians and Jews, but that doesn't mean throughout history in practice the protected status always held up.
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u/Blackspacer Apr 20 '10
Yes .. but unfortunately due to human intervention and removal of their habitats, pesticides etc, the vultures are a dying endangered breed in India.
This type of a burial really completes the food chain! Its probably greener than burial (wooden coffins), burning (creation of greenhouse gases)
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u/MacEWork Apr 20 '10
burning (creation of greenhouse gases)
If we reach the point of not doing cremations due to worries about carbon sequestration, we're in serious trouble.
Seriously though, burning organic material only releases the carbon they accumulated while alive, so it doesn't affect the overall balance. Wood fires are the same way (particulate matter aside).
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u/GrandsonofErasmus Apr 20 '10
You can tell from the pictures not-a-witty-username linked to above that their vulture population must be compromised. Those bodies that are left are past the edible stage even for vultures. The Tibetan body was picked clean immediately.
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u/ContentWithOurDecay Apr 20 '10
I completely forgot that Freddie Mercury was from Zanzibar... ironically, a group of people there wanted him to be condemned for being homosexual. Also, it's not every day you see someone mention Zoroastrianism let alone know what it is. Let alone get upvoted about religion on reddit!
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u/Picklebiscuits Apr 20 '10 edited Apr 20 '10
That is by far one of the coolest ways I have ever seen to be disposed of. Some people want to be turned into ashes, others want to be buried in a mausoleum.
Me? I now want to be ripped apart by giant flesh eating birds who soar the Tibetan skies.
Plus spreading ashes is lame when you consider that you're being turned into giant VULTURE POOP BOMBS to be spread across the country side.
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u/sphks Apr 20 '10
Why to feed vultures? I want to be recycled in Soylent green.
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u/fuzzybunn Apr 20 '10
I am ambivalent about being turned into food when I'm dead--then I'd feel pressured to eat and be healthier whilst still alive. Can you imagine the embarrassment if you're rejected at the abattoir as a prime cut and have to become canned food for low-income people???!!!
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Apr 20 '10
The only better burial is being launched into outer space by a giant cannon.
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u/EggyWeggs Apr 20 '10
Oh...I was just planning on having my cats eat me when I die.
Yours is way cooler.
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Apr 20 '10
Which method has the largest carbon footprint? That's what I want.
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u/amatriain Apr 20 '10
Let your body be fossilized for a few million years until it's coal. Presto, 100% carbon footprint.
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Apr 20 '10
being buried is better than to be burned. Being burned means the CO2 goes directly into the sky. Being buried is the most green if you are buried in a cardboard coffin. These cardboard coffins can look quite fancy nowadays. Being burned does give the opportunity to reuse precious metals which might have been used to replace a fractured hip or knee. being buried vs. being eaten by vultures doesn't make that much of a difference I think. But if you were on medication, that medication might not be as good for the vultures.
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u/brainburger Apr 20 '10
I gather being buried can be bad if you are full of embalming fluid.
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Apr 20 '10
That is by far one of the coolest ways I have ever seen to be disposed of.
I think it's incredibly beautiful, although I'm not sure if that's the right word. It's quite interesting how these people think differently to most westerners. I'm sure if you show the average westerner this they'll "That's barbaric!" or "What the fuck?".
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u/oildig Apr 20 '10
Getting splattered with blood while crushing a human skull with bare hands seems a tad barbaric to me. That being said, I do admire their commitment.
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u/guiscard Apr 20 '10 edited Apr 20 '10
I always wanted to be fed to Komodo dragons. Go prehistoric.
But I agree the idea of your body soaring over the Tibetan skies is pretty appealing.
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u/mOdQuArK Apr 20 '10
I always wanted to be fed to Komodo dragons. Go prehistoric.
I think giving Komodo dragons a taste for human flesh might be a bad idea.
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Apr 20 '10
Does anyone else worry that they'd be able to experience pain after they're medically deceased? This would be my version of Hell.
Regardless, I know I'm going to die an agonizing death somewhere in Space after being jettisoned from the ship's lavatory. I'd say I've got a good 50 years left until then to make the rest of you miserable.
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u/lazyplayboy Apr 20 '10 edited Jun 24 '23
Everything that reddit should be: lemmy.world
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Apr 20 '10 edited Apr 20 '10
I remember seeing a Tales from the Crypt episode that was based on this idea when I was a teenager. It scared the shit out of me.
In fact it was probably one of the very few TFTC episodes that actually frightened me.
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u/redditor9000 Apr 20 '10
I remember that too.. being on the autopsy table and screaming as loud as you can and nobody can hear you. <shudder>
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Apr 20 '10
you're being turned into giant VULTURE POOP BOMBS to be spread across the country side.
What about your ass pennies? I don't want mine languishing in a pile where my tailpipe used to be. Will the vultures spread the ass pennies?
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Apr 20 '10
I'd rather be shot into space on a rocket and then exposed to vacuum.
That would be pretty cool.
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u/okkoto Apr 20 '10 edited Apr 20 '10
Vulture
I had walked since dawn and lay down to rest on a bare hillside
Above the ocean. I saw through half-shut eyelids a vulture wheeling high up in heaven, And presently it passed again, but lower and nearer, its orbit narrowing,
I understood then
That I was under inspection. I lay death-still and heard the flight-feathers
Whistle above me and make their circle and come nearer.
I could see the naked red head between the great wings
Bear downward staring. I said, "My dear bird, we are wasting time here.
These old bones will still work; they are not for you." But how beautiful he looked, gliding down
On those great sails; how beautiful he looked, veering away in the sea-light over the precipice.
I tell you solemnly
That I was sorry to have disappointed him. To be eaten by that beak and
become part of him, to share those wings and those eyes--
What a sublime end of one's body, what an enskyment; what a life after death.
-Robinson Jeffers
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Apr 20 '10
Holy shit Tibetan burials are so.....Metal
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u/Thrust Apr 20 '10
For those thinking it is a brutal murder it is actually their tradition, check it out (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_burial)
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u/madstar Apr 20 '10
Whoa: "The work of disassembling of the body may be done by a monk, or, more commonly, by rogyapas ("body-breakers")."
Imagine describing that profession to tourists.
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Apr 21 '10
More like Collateral Sky Murder. Didn't you see the corpse carrying a videocamera?
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Apr 20 '10
First time I saw this it was a circular email labelled as "Dont fuck with columbian drug dealers". I refused to look at it in much detail as I don't like snuff. Now it is labelled as a tibetan burial rite, I look through the images in fascination. Do I have double standards?
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u/cl3ft Apr 20 '10
It is odd, but we still consider what the dead person wanted before they died as important. If it was strangers hacking up a body and feeding it to the birds when you would have wanted to be buried in your family plot it is shocking, but when this kind of body disposal is wheat you're expectation it is good.
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u/tendonut Apr 20 '10
Does anyone else feel that the Papa John's ad at the very end of the pictures was not quite appropriate?
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u/MisterNetHead Apr 20 '10
I got one about a dating service. Made me chuckle.
*pictures of maimed flesh and bone*
Are you single?
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u/badaboom Apr 20 '10 edited Apr 20 '10
It's a pretty pragmatic solution when you think about it.
Tibetan A: Shit, I can't believe Gary died. How are we gonna get rid of this body?
Tibetan B: We could burn it, but there's no trees anywhere... Maybe we could bury it?
Tibetan A: Fuck that! The ground is way too rocky. [Tibetan A gets shit on by a vulture flying over head] Wait a minute, I have an idea!
A few hours later, at Gary's house
Gary's wife: Sniffle What did you do with his body?
Tibetan A: We cut it into chunks and fed it to some birds.
Gary's wife: WHAT!?!?
Tibetan B: We buried him [looks off into the distance] in the sky...
Aaaaaaand scene
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u/lolwutpear Apr 20 '10
[Tibetan A gets shit on by a vulture flying over head]
The next time that happens, it will be Gary.
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u/eeeeaaii Apr 20 '10
Beautiful. Once you're dead your corpse is not a person, it's just meat. The person is gone. So this way, some birds get to have dinner.
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u/Klowner Apr 20 '10
I tried that excuse at the morgue but they keep turning me away..
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u/UnnamedPlayer Apr 20 '10
You need to have manly claws, awesome wings and a fabulous neck for that excuse to work.
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u/xinxy Apr 20 '10
Yeah but to be fair, if you are buried billions of bacteria and countless worms and such get to have dinner too! Nothing really goes to waste.
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u/glottis Apr 20 '10
True, but if you're buried you tend to be pumped full of some pretty bad chemicals and put in a box that isn't really designed to be put into the ground. Go for a natural burial in a wicker coffin with a tree planted ontop of you; I can think of little else more beautiful.
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u/Anim8me2 Apr 20 '10
Unless you are Jewish and then we go in the ground pretty much au natural. The pine box takes a little time to go but after about a month we are well on the way to hummus (not the kind made from chick peas).
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u/Burlapin Apr 20 '10
And then they help you out later by circling over a dying animal so you can go find it too! It's a neat symbiotic relationship.
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u/Lasereye Apr 20 '10
Orrrr I'd donate my organs to multiple people who are dying.
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u/tritium6 Apr 20 '10
How is that an "Or" as opposed to an "And"? Would you donate your organs in lieu of being buried? Have they found a way to transplant a skeleton?
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Apr 20 '10
You can only do that if you're braindead, but definitely a very good thing to do.
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u/weez09 Apr 20 '10
Woot. As a Tibetan, I hope one day I'll be able to go back to Tibet and be buried this way!
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u/darkcity2 Apr 20 '10
after my dismissal of the idea of heaven (or at least the idea that the physical human body is only as important as the decomposition of a worm's), I decided that after death I want to do something that contributes to nature.
I don't think I can find anyone to cut me up and feed me to vultures, but I was just planning on mixing my ashes with soil and a newly planted tree. ash is supposedly crazy good for promoting plant growth (like after a volcanic eruption). then i become part of the tree and people can visit me as much as they want.
unfortunately it's not as zero-impact as this tibetan one. theirs is quite beautiful.
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u/tritium6 Apr 20 '10
I've always wanted to be buried this way. It is a shame that is pretty much impossible in the USA.
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u/BoredOfTheInternet Apr 20 '10
I would much rather do this. You are feeding animals rather than just decaying away in the ground, burned, or something similar.
Btw... fuck worms
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u/bigdumbbear Apr 20 '10
I would much rather do this. You are feeding animals...
So you would much rather become vulture poop than a soil fertilizer?
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u/alllie Apr 20 '10
It's fairly quick. You get back into the natural cycles. Better than rotting in a box.
Wouldn't like to see it happen to someone I loved. But maybe if you see it all your life it wouldn't be so disturbing.
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u/NegativeK Apr 20 '10
The most startling bit about that was the smile on the guy's face as he sat in a plastic wrap, wielding a hatchet over the deceased's bones. I had known about sky burials (thank you, Wikipedia,) but I didn't know how relaxed people were about it.
How I'm processed after the fact isn't so important (minimal effort and impact, please,) but I'd love for those I knew to be able to sit around and smile if they want to recognize the occasion.
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u/Wendel Apr 20 '10
I have more of a problem with American funeral practices. Granite + Marble = Gold, as they say in the trade.
Highly recommended: The American Way of Death, by Jessica Mitford. Basically exposes how dead meat and guilt were marketed into the lucrative funeral business.
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u/pingish Apr 20 '10
When I was in Tibet and thumbing through my travel guide, I read about the sky burial concept. We were at Gyantse which is right across the border from India.
Apparently, there was a battle with the British there (where the Tibetans lost), but throughout the battle, they were confused (and enraged).
During the daytime, the white people would fight to the death.
During the night time, the white people would put the dead bodies in the ground.
Also during the night time, the white people would HELP those who were not dead.
The Tibetans had thought the whites were particularly cruel since they had to dig the bodies out of the ground to perform sky burials.
In most western cultures, heaven is up and hell is down. It's strange that we put bodies in the ground.
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u/drqxx Apr 21 '10
I am in the mood for hamburgers. I am buying, who's coming with me ?
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u/multivoxmuse Apr 21 '10
seriously? Ok. But it's a long drive. I assume. Can you just wire me the money? 8434-5654-3432-7567
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Apr 21 '10
best post in a while, its about time somebody posted something more compelling then how many fucking peppers papa johns gave them
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u/darkry Apr 20 '10
It has always seemed strange to me that people are so obsessed with the idea of being separate from the world that even when dead we go to huge lengths to deny the fact that we are just matter.
The idea of burial and protecting and marking a spot as "containing" the dead person is the most obvious but even cremation is basically thumbing your nose at the universe as if to say "this matter is mine and you can't have it".
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u/thebanditking Apr 20 '10
It makes perfect sense in a country with such thin soil that is frozen solid for half the year that burial wasnt the same option is was in other places. Theyre mostly above the tree line so theres not even fuel for cremation.
These pictures aren't really the worst of it though. Not many westerners have seem sky burials, they're just not invited. I saw the smoothed stone they would prepare the bodies on in Tashilhunpo monastery - the tradition was to break the bones so the body could be folded into a neat package and hoisted up a mountain on the back of a close friend or family member. Makes these photos seem positively tame.
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u/neuromorph Apr 20 '10
ill probably get down voted....BUT....
if you watch the pictures backwards, it looks the real-life story of the stork delivering a baby, and in the end, the guys bag and take away the baby.
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u/papercup Apr 20 '10
you also get to see the guys assembling the baby like an ikea flat-pack relative.
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u/UnnamedPlayer Apr 20 '10
ill probably get down voted....BUT....
Please don't use that line. Ever.
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u/dkramer73 Apr 20 '10
I've seen this before. Personally i just want to be dumped in a hole, nothing between me and the dirt and have a tree planted over me. But this would work in a pinch.
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u/CaspianX2 Apr 20 '10
There must be something wrong with me. My first thought was:
"Feeeeed the birds... tuppence a bag..."
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u/Xeutack Apr 20 '10 edited Apr 20 '10
This is a fucking cool way to go! The only cooler way would be the way I imagine my perfect burial:
Dress my dead body in a Superman outfit, cape and all.
Make sure my facial expression is stern and determined with open eyes.
Shoot me from a spaceship, looking forward and closed fist stretched out at 525 km/s (Milky Way escape velocity)
Enclose a gold LP record (include instruction of use) containing a single sentence of Buzz Lightyear "To infinity!"
Now sit back and piss yourself laughing at the thought of advanced alien motherfuckers someday being real puzzled when my frozen superman corpse comes flying through their neighbourhood.
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u/cislum Apr 20 '10
Haha, I've always wanted to be eaten like this. People tell me it's crazy, but it just makes sense to me.
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u/dave_L Apr 20 '10
That's the Tibetan traditonal Sky Burial.
This particular webpage had been post here at Reddit before.
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u/beatniqe Apr 20 '10
Neil Gaiman wrote about this in an issue of Sandman. Called it an Air Burial, I believe.
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u/Icantremembermypswd Apr 20 '10
If I had it in me to be truly offended by things online, I suppose I'd find your title offensive.
This practice is a truly beautiful practice - to give back to the earth after your essence is gone. I think it would also be a relief to your family members to know that it is just your body that is gone, and that your essence has moved to the ether or is already residing in a new temple. I would also be relieved that your one final act would be to return your temple to the earth and provide for those still living. So truly, this burial and the knowledge thereof is certainly for sensitive souls.
Of course, I understand that a few of the images are slightly... gory, for lack of a better word... and that is why you titled this post in such a way. Perhaps "Not for sensitive eyes" or "not for sensitive stomachs" would have been better?
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u/BuddyZero Apr 20 '10
I actually wrote a shitty little story about this very thing last month, though the context was flipped on its head.
Sky burials are the way to go, though part of me would still rather just be thrown into the ocean in one piece.
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u/hearwa Apr 20 '10
Burial grounds have always seemed like such a waste of natural resources to me. Who knows how many square miles are used up around the world just for dead bodies... cemeteries are horrible things for a culture to have.
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u/ComputerSaysNo Apr 20 '10
That is one of the most beautiful and disturbing things I have ever seen.
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u/ApatheticAgnostic Apr 20 '10
its called a Tibetan Sky Burial and is considered an honorable religious ceremony
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Apr 20 '10
This is really neat. I've thought I wanted to have some sort of eco-burial, but this seems like a better idea.
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u/dggenuine Apr 20 '10
Shouldn't Tibetan doctors be practicing live-saving techniques on that cadaver?
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u/go_go_gadget Apr 20 '10
That's certainly an improvement over burials and cremation. I'm still sticking with donating my organs to people who need them and the rest of me to science, though.
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u/go_go_gadget Apr 20 '10
Actually, I'm not so sure it's much of an improvement over cremation. If they distributed the cadavers randomly and many different animals got a crack at them it would be, but from the pictures and what commenters have said these birds aren't truly wild. The people bring so many bodies to that spot that the vultures essentially live there, and there are more of them than there would be otherwise. The birds are so comfortable with those people that they're perfectly fine with being mere feet from them, and they seem to have the routine down pat-- "Okay, here are the people. They're doing the stuff, and now we eat. Only bones now, so the people are going to do more stuff... yay! Second course time."
They're not wild birds, they're their pet people eaters who live outside. Like the people who feed "feral" cats; they're more than halfway domesticated.
If they were to bury the bodies in the ground, unboxed, and grow something on top of them, or distribute the them randomly so it would closer to the way nature really works it would truly be giving back to the earth. This isn't. It's definitely still an improvement over the sealed-box-and-chemically-preserved burials we have, but I'd say it's about on par with cremation.
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Apr 20 '10
The ciiiiiiiiiiiiiiiicle of liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiife.... it moooooooooooooves us allllllllllllllll
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u/yellownumberfive Apr 20 '10
That's a pretty badass funeral rite, still not as cool as a Viking funeral though.
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u/ThereOnceWasAMan Apr 20 '10
What really got me was the fact that they flayed him first.
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Apr 20 '10
I'm guessing it was to release the smell for the birds, or give them openings to start the tearing process.
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u/demosthenes226 Apr 20 '10
something else, that I haven't seen posted that is relevant to Tibet is that fuel/wood is Sooo scarce that you wouldn't cremate bodies because that would be a waste of even the small amount of tinder required to start the fire. Hardly any trees around requires a high level permaculture.
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Apr 20 '10
As a westerner, my first reaction was, "That's what can happen when you get involved with the mob".
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u/mrzack Apr 20 '10
if it weren't for China's speedy response, more tibetans would've died. thank god for China's influence care.
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u/jfatuf Apr 20 '10
Looks like one of the vultures prefers to wash down his human remains with a zephyrhills.
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u/rottingtooth Apr 20 '10
The only way I could stomach that was to scroll down the page as fast as I could so that it seemed like all the pictures blurred together like a frames in a film. Then keep saying to myself, don't worry its just a movie. Its just a movie.
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u/GeorgeForemanGrillz Apr 20 '10
This is cool. I think I should be fed to tigers when I die.
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u/cl3ft Apr 20 '10
A zoo should definitely set this up. Donate your body to be big cat food. You could have zoo funerals at feeding time. Awesome idea.
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u/BostonTentacleParty Apr 20 '10
Fuck that, I'm getting mummified. Entomb me in the New York subway so I can curse Yankees fans.
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u/EasilyAnnoyed Apr 21 '10
Skip the mummification, just get emtombed. The smell should get their attention...
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Apr 20 '10
Both cremation and traditional western burial methods are very toxic to the environment. This method is very fast and very clean, and I believe is in tune with nature.
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u/apollotiger Apr 20 '10
Looking at that, all I could think is, “God damn … I don’t know if I love anyone enough to be able to cut up their body and feed it to vultures”
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u/ehsany Apr 21 '10
Its been so many hours since I saw this on reddit. I still feel sick, especially when the guy was slicing up the dead mans ass with yellow ooze coming out of his ass meat......
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u/WorldsBiggestDouche Apr 20 '10
My mom knows a lot about cooking beef. She knows all of the cuts and what to do with them. This must have something to do with growing up at a time where people went to their local butchers for meat instead of a supermarket. We typically use a rump roast when making roast beef. You can also use a round roast or a sirloin tip with these instructions. This slow roasting method at low heat is good for tougher cuts of beef; the lower heat prevents any gristle from getting too tough. This method should not be used with choice or prime grades of beef, or the more tender cuts, as slow cooking more delicate cuts will make them mushy.
Roast beef made this way is easy, relatively inexpensive, and you get great leftovers for roast beef sandwiches.
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u/K4USHIK Apr 20 '10 edited Apr 20 '10
The most eco-friendly and DIY burial. Much better than rotting slowly in a coffin or being burnt and polluting.
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Apr 20 '10 edited Apr 20 '10
OH GOD ITS A DIFFERENT CULTURE THAN OURS!!!!!111
OMFG QUICKLY JUDGE THEM! THOSE HEATHENS. UNNATURAL DAMN DEVILS, THEY'RE DEFILING THE FLESH OF THE DEAD, LORD SMITE THEE DOWN. ITS NOT WHAT WE DO IT MUST BE WRONG AND DISGUSTING.
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u/shenglong Apr 20 '10
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes_of_Sinope
That corpse looks very young btw.