Fantasy coffins
This one from the TopTenz.net lists:
Top Tenz unusual death ritualsl
10. Funeral with strippers (Chinese custom to entice attendees)
9. Dancing with the Dead at Madagascar
8. Sky Burial (of Tibetans)
7. Tana Toraja Funeral at Indonesia - this is extended funeral wake that lasts for weeks, months, and even year. The dead is treated as sleeping or sick still living with the family.
6. Lifegem (your remains will be made into synthetic diamond)
5. Fantasy Coffins (in Ghana Africa); the coffins represent the work of the deceased.
4 Endocannibalism- tribes in South America Australia practice this. (in Yanomamo community in South America). The ash and ground bones of the deceased are eaten to inherit the traits of the deceased.
3 Self mummification
2. Fasting to death - voluntary death, 13 day fast called santhara. It is practiced by a group called Jains in India. It can be called spiritual purification. The believers do not call it suicide or euthanasia.
1. Exposure - The usual processes described defile the body according to Zoroastarians. Hence the body is left to rot and or eaten by vultures in a raised structure. However there is a shortage of vultures in India. The tower of silence in Mumbai India is teeming with rotting cadavers.
I would consider the Tana Toraja (#7), and Lifegem (#^) the endocannibalism (#4) as truly bizarre.
We are thankful that we are not in this kind of society and we do not allow any of these.
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