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.

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 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.

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.