Tibetan Sky Funeral (Graphic)(NSFW)

Squirt · **Joined:** Jan 2008 **Posts:** 8186 **Location:**

http://imgur.com/a/ddTMd

This is pretty cool. Odd thought knowing that people still follow rituals like this

heroo · **Joined:** Sep 2006 **Posts:** 6618 **Location:**

you should warn that it's quite shocking.

I was eating while watching this -.-

cbkilla · **Joined:** Feb 2010 **Posts:** 1124 **Location:**

Dafuq...

poehalcho · **Posted:** Fri Sep 28, 2012 3:16 pm

Wonder how long that takes o.o

omier · **Joined:** Aug 2006 **Posts:** 5985 **Location:** ...

Oh cool. It's a pretty time consuming ritual, but it's better to feed the nature than just burn the flesh I think.

Panu · **Joined:** Aug 2007 **Posts:** 3536 **Location:** Around

Should change the title heading to [NSFW] instead of (graphic) imo

*BlackFox · **Joined:** Sep 2008 **Posts:** 7923 **Location:**

Holy crap... That's Just disgusting.

Mirosuke · **Posted:** Fri Sep 28, 2012 8:40 pm

DUDE WTF? You totally killed us. WARN. WARN.

Ganja · **Joined:** Sep 2009 **Posts:** 1494 **Location:**

I guess the internet has ruined me, I found that to only be mildly "graphic"

Azilius · **Joined:** Oct 2006 **Posts:** 4236 **Location:** CS:GO

While I know that once someone is dead - they're dead - and it doesn't really matter what happens to their remains, it still makes me uncomfortable in the sense that I could never do that to someone I knew. Seeing this doesn't bother me really though. It's either the birds get to eat or the soil gets some compost (or however else you see it).

I'll justify my discomfort by saying that science may someday allow us to live incredibly extended lives and revive those who are dead (to a point of course) so some dismemberment of a dead person could prevent that..idk

omier · **Joined:** Aug 2006 **Posts:** 5985 **Location:** ...

Ganja wrote:

I guess the internet has ruined me, I found that to only be mildly "graphic"

Same.

BuDo · **Joined:** Dec 2008 **Posts:** 4714 **Location:**

Its a pretty interesting ritual. I'd rather they took the body out to sea for sharks to take care of it or to a crocodile infested river....That was a little bit too graphic seeing how they slice up the body..

poehalcho · **Posted:** Sat Sep 29, 2012 9:08 am

Sanktum wrote:

Ganja wrote:

I guess the internet has ruined me, I found that to only be mildly "graphic"

Same.

Didn't even go as far as mildy graphic :/

inky · **Joined:** Nov 2006 **Posts:** 4025 **Location:**

People really develop interesting ways to cope with death; each having their own symbolism and psychological explanation. Some people simply want to dissolve into nothing, others want to "return to ashes", some have a hard time letting go and prefer to be mummified or frozen, and there are those with a special flare who do unconventional things like turn into a synthetic diamond after being cremated. Then there are people who want to continue being of use even after death by donating their organs to other people or opting to be a cadaver - or, in this case, feeding the vultures.

Swindler · **Posted:** Sat Sep 29, 2012 8:19 pm

Yup, internet has totally ruined me, I didn't bother me one bit. Pretty interesting though.

Ganja · **Joined:** Sep 2009 **Posts:** 1494 **Location:**

inky wrote:

People really develop interesting ways to cope with death; each having their own symbolism and psychological explanation. Some people simply want to dissolve into nothing, others want to "return to ashes", some have a hard time letting go and prefer to be mummified or frozen, and there are those with a special flare who do unconventional things like turn into a synthetic diamond after being cremated. Then there are people who want to continue being of use even after death by donating their organs to other people or opting to be a cadaver - or, in this case, feeding the vultures.

I think the "returning to nature" concept. I remember seeing a while back that there are some urns you can place a tree in and the tree grows from your ashes and eventually can be planted in the ground. I thought this was a nice thing to do because of people visiting a stone with engravings on it they can visit a tree that your remains helped give life to, and the tree will be around for many lifetimes so even other generations can visit, until some asshole chops it down to make room for his pool.

It was something like this but it wasn't the same one I had seen previously.

Tasdik · **Joined:** Jan 2007 **Posts:** 13206 **Location:** Life

Gross.

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