THE MODERN DICTIONARY defines the word ‘burial’ as placing a body in the ground.But burying the deceased was not always the case. Just as primitive man has long worshiped the four elements of Earth, Sky, Water, and Fire, so too have these elements taken their place in burial practices as diverse as the different tribes of the earth.The way mankind deals with its dead says a great deal about those left to carry on. Burial practices are windows to a culture that speak volumes about how it lives.As we are told in Genesis, man comes from dust, and returns to it. We have found many different ways to return.Burial and funeral customs are the methods and ceremonies used in the disposing of bodies of dead persons. The most common methods of disposing of bodies are; interment (burial) and cremation (burning).There are some uncommon burial method that you might not realize in the world.
First ,the Tibet sky burial is one of the uncommon burial method and maybe some of us cannot accept this. In much of Tibet and Qinghai, the ground is too hard and rocky to dig a grave, and, due to the scarcity of fuel and timber, sky burials were typically more practical than the traditional Buddhist practice of cremation. Tibetan Buddhists practice ritual dissection, or "Sky Burials" — the tradition of chopping up the dead into small pieces and giving the remains to animals, particularly birds. A corpse is sliced up, usually atop a mountain, and left for the birds. Tibetans call the practice jhator, which means giving alms to the birds. And also legs, torsos and heads as well.The bodies, wrapped in white cloth, are bought to the burial site, where the monks have enticed vultures and other airborne scavengers. Monks unwrap the bodies, a process that probably isn't all that pleasant considering they've been left alone for three days (per Tibetan custom).One or more monks then set about the body with axes and, When the body is dismembered, the vultures swoop in and squabble over the chunks...