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CW: podcast about death and burial, animals eating human corpses
Listened to a somewhat gruesome, but also respectful & incredibly fascinating episode of #99PercentInvisible yesterday.
The #Parsi community in India traditionally practices sky burial: The bodies of the deceased are placed on top of a stone structure, where they would be eaten by vultures, often in less than an hour.
But what happens when humans accidentally kill basically all of the vultures?
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/towers-of-silence/ (72 min)