[farmfriend]

There is a technique through diet whereby eastern monks mummify themselves while still alive.

[adam_az]

"There is a technique through diet whereby eastern monks mummify themselves while still alive."

Yes! They eat some kind of tree which has a potent resin in the sap in the mountains of Japan. I've seen video of the mummies. Supposedly no one has done it for a long time.

Many monks, when reaching the end of their life, die through meditation and starvation... it's easier than dying of whatever else is going to kill them.