Sky burial in Tibet. In the middle of the Tibetan highlands, vultures flock hungrily around a dismembered corpse. The "Ragyapas" — the Buddhist morticians — have left the body for them to eat.

Sky Burials in Tibet: In Tibet, the sky burial is a unique funeral practice rooted in Tibetan Buddhist beliefs. The deceased's body is taken to a designated site, typically atop a mountain.

When I die I would like to leave my remains to the vultures. Surely it is my constitutional right to do so. Answer::As far as I am currently aware it is unfortunately not legal to do this in South ...

Sky burial is an ecologically appealing practice where disarticulated dead bodies are placed on a mountain side with easy access for the vultures and their companions.

Sky burial is essentially an attempt to follow in the steps of the Buddha who sacrificed his own life to save a starving tigress in one of his many reincarnations before Siddhartha Gautam of the ...

Green burials — the American standard until the Civil War — are coming back, as people ditch expensive caskets and decompose into the soil instead.

Roman burial site unearthed in 'truly extraordinary' excavation of hidden Leeds cemetery. The discoveries in the cemetery in Garforth are believed to include both late Roman and early-Saxon people ...