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The Importance of Veiling
There's a sky burial technique that's practiced in Vajrayana Buddhism. The family dismembers the corpse so that birds of prey will come and actually lift parts of the body up to the heavens. This can help with a new rebirth that's higher up on the scale of being or something. Even when a bunch of Parsi people live to Mumbai,. they create in sky burial platforms and feed them vultures to keep them around. So what you do with the body depends on the geography.
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