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.<div><br></div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_burial">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_burial</a></div>
<div><a href="http://altreligion.about.com/od/ritualsandpractices/a/zoro_funeral.htm">http://altreligion.about.com/od/ritualsandpractices/a/zoro_funeral.htm</a></div><div><br></div><div>For those interested in the macabre, a google search for "sky burial images" yields some interesting photos:</div>
<div>Click at your own risk.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="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">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</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><br clear="all">---- Steve (KZ6LSD)<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Clarke Olsen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:colsen@fairpoint.net">colsen@fairpoint.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Sky burial: the corpse is left on a platform for the birds, out of reach from those predators who might acquire<br>
an appetite for Long Pig, and out of sight for the squeamish.<br>
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