[Ransomed]

I recall reading articles on FR about huge inadvertent vulture poisonings that affected the Zoroastrian methods of burial. I think it’s called decarnation? Where birds of prey eat the flesh of the deceased faithful.

Freegards

[Buttons12]

Excarnation. Supposedly it’s impious or polluting to bury the dead.

[SunkenCiv]

• In The Towers Of Silence, An Ancient Ritual Of Death Comes Under Threat [09/11/2006]