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Vanishing Vultures A Grave Matter For India's Parsis
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| 5 September 2012
| eliot Hannan
Posted on 09/24/2012 8:16:30 AM PDT by Cronos
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Zoroastrians believe that fire is holy and that the earth is the source of life, so the best way to dispose of a body is to let the vultures eat it.
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posted on
09/24/2012 8:16:34 AM PDT
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Cronos
To: Cronos
If Iran was still ran by Zoroastrians it would be a LOT easier to deal with it.
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posted on
09/24/2012 8:20:16 AM PDT
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GraceG
To: Cronos
Have they considered fire ants?
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posted on
09/24/2012 8:21:48 AM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(Taranto: "The whole point of the metaphor is that if you can hear the whistle, you're the dog.")
To: Cronos
Makes as much sense as burying the bodies and letting bacteria and worms eat it.
For a really interesting way of dealing with a corpse, check out sky burial in Tibet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_burial
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posted on
09/24/2012 8:24:16 AM PDT
by
Sherman Logan
(Perception wins all the battles. Reality wins all the wars.)
To: Cronos
yet one more reason why I won’t ever visit that country
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09/24/2012 8:24:56 AM PDT
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driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: Sherman Logan
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posted on
09/24/2012 8:26:40 AM PDT
by
Cronos
(**Marriage is about commitment, cohabitation is about convenience.**)
To: driftdiver
because there aren’t enough vultures? :)
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posted on
09/24/2012 8:28:03 AM PDT
by
Cronos
(**Marriage is about commitment, cohabitation is about convenience.**)
To: Cronos
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posted on
09/24/2012 8:32:12 AM PDT
by
Ransomed
To: GraceG
Too bad the Zoros are dying out. Interesting religion.
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posted on
09/24/2012 8:47:26 AM PDT
by
brooklyn dave
( OBAMA IS A SOCIALIST PERIOD.)
To: GraceG
Too bad the Zoros are dying out. Interesting religion.
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posted on
09/24/2012 8:48:28 AM PDT
by
brooklyn dave
( OBAMA IS A SOCIALIST PERIOD.)
To: Cronos
We've got plenty in Illinois. Maybe I should go into the
buzzard export business.
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posted on
09/24/2012 9:01:40 AM PDT
by
CrazyIvan
(Obama's birth certificate was found stapled to Soros's receipt.)
To: driftdiver
"yet one more reason why I wont ever visit that country"Your loss! And Mickey D does not serve beef. And the Tower of Silence is fairly near the center of Mumbai. And they burn bodies by the Ganges and throw the ashes in. And they have a bigger film industry than Hollywood. And they have the world's biggest (and successful) 'heart hospital'. And one of the world's biggest steel industries. And they own Jaguar and Rover cars. And they make the cheapest car. And .. and .. and. As I say - your loss.
To: I am Richard Brandon
and they advertise jobs as public rat catchers, and have 30,000 people with college degrees apply for a job involving a flashlight and a stick to kill rats.
I’ve meet many fine people from India. They don’t want to live there either.
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09/24/2012 9:11:41 AM PDT
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driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: hinckley buzzard
Business opportunity here.
To: Cronos
Freddie Mercury was a Zoroastrian, and supposedly had a traditional funeral. I wonder if he got this treatment too?
To: driftdiver
I have absolutely no desire to visit any flies-on-your-face country.
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posted on
09/24/2012 9:43:27 AM PDT
by
Bigg Red
(Pray for our republic.)
To: Bigg Red
“I have absolutely no desire to visit any flies-on-your-face country.”
Heard about Obama’s “Circle Fly” problem?
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posted on
09/24/2012 10:29:19 AM PDT
by
GladesGuru
(In a society predicated upon freedom, it is necessary to examine principles."...the public interest)
To: I am Richard Brandon
And they burn bodies by the Ganges and throw the ashes in. Unfortunately, the bodies are not always thoroughly burned before being tossed in. Fuel is expensive, you know.
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09/24/2012 10:51:41 AM PDT
by
Sherman Logan
(Perception wins all the battles. Reality wins all the wars.)
To: Sherman Logan
I used to know a fellow (now deceased) who was a veteran of the China-Burma-India theater. The only war story he told me was of when his unit boarded a troopship anchored in the Ganges at Calcutta to head home. He said that the only water the ship took on in the Ganges was for engine cooling...he and his men were on emergency water rationing from the moment they boarded the ship until they were out in the open ocean. Even at that time, the river was so polluted that it would have wiped out the ship’s water distillers within minutes.
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posted on
09/24/2012 11:47:59 AM PDT
by
M1903A1
("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy... and call it progress")
To: Cronos
The Parsis should consider the dermestid beetles which are used to clean flesh from animal to produce skeletons for anatomy classes.
I once had a comparative anatomy professor who was given a dead horse. He hauled the horse up to the roof of the science building, and set the demestids on it to clean away the flesh. Unfortunately, the beetles couldn't keep up with the rot, and the odor began to descend floor by floor down through the building. It got to the point where the students and other professors couldn't stand the stench, and the poor anatomy professor had to hire a tall crane to lift the horses remains off the building in order to dispose of it in a landfill.
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09/24/2012 11:55:28 AM PDT
by
Hiddigeigei
("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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