AtD, 'the ending'...is a Tibetan Sky-Funeral a relevant allusion?....(found for Robin)

[Dave Monroe]

On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 6:13 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> "During Tibetan sky funerals on Lhasa's northern edge, machete-wielding undertakers -- sometimes drunk on Tibetan 'chang' beer to numb the horror -- chop dead people into mince-meat.
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> "The ceremony displays the bloody messiness of a slaughterhouse, outdoors atop a large flat boulder behind Sera Monastery.
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> "Ropes are tied to corpses' necks and knotted around big rocks, to prevent the bodies sliding off the blood-wet boulder.
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> "The undertakers also hammer the corpses' bones, and mix the powdered bones with human meat, so nothing is left after the vultures eat.

I passed by a photograph of this regularly earlier this year.  Here be video ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqAdxwCtXaE