[Greenbuilding] Green Funerals

[Steven Tjiang]

Sky burial is essentially the Zoroastrian funeral and the Tibeten funeral.
 it is perhaps the greenest of all last rites especially if heavy metal
containing ornaments are removed as suggested here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_burial
http://altreligion.about.com/od/ritualsandpractices/a/zoro_funeral.htm

For those interested in the macabre, a google search for "sky burial
images" yields some interesting photos:
Click at your own risk.

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ie=UTF-8&ion=1#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&site=webhp&source=hp&q=sky%20burial%20images&pbx=1&oq=&aq=&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&fp=29de51100affe7f&ion=1&ion=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.,cf.osb&fp=29de51100affe7f&biw=1244&bih=1237&ion=1


---- Steve (KZ6LSD)


On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Clarke Olsen <colsen at fairpoint.net> wrote:

> Sky burial: the corpse is left on a platform for the birds, out of reach
> from those predators who might acquire
> an appetite for Long Pig, and out of sight for the squeamish.
>
> Clarke Olsen
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