Talk:Sky burial
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Sky burial is a ritual practice common in Tibet </wiki/Tibet> that involves placing the body of the deceased in a high ground (mountain) and expose it ritually, especially to birds of prey </wiki/Bird_of_prey>. The Towers of Silence (also dakhma or dokhma) are Zoroastrian </wiki/Zoroastrian> funerary towers, the majority of which are located in Mumbai </wiki/Mumbai>, India </wiki/India>, belonging to Parsi </wiki/Parsi> Zoroastrians, and in Yazd </wiki/Yazd> and Kerman </wiki/Kerman>, Iran </wiki/Iran>, belonging to the Iranian Zoroastrians. Zoroastrians consider the dead body </wiki/Corpse> to be unclean, and their religion prohibits allowing corpses to pollute the pure elements </wiki/Classical_element> of earth and fire. Corpses are therefore placed atop the Towers of Silence for their flesh to be consumed by vultures </wiki/Vulture>. Once the bones have been bleached by the sun and wind, they are thrown into the ossuary </wiki/Ossuary> pit at the center of the tower. American Indian Cultures are also known to have used a this method placeing bodys on platforms in trees. - Just FYI.
[edit] Be nice if sky burial was legal in the US
Should it be since it is a religous practice?
[edit] Merger
FYI I'm discussing with Mytildebang if we can undo the merger of Tibetan Sky Burial into this page. Sky Burial should be a disambig with links to the specific practices of different cultures, since the practices are different enough that generalizations are untenable. So reversion of this page and of Tibetan Sky Burial may be forthcoming.
Vcrs 17:45, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
