Sky burial, which is also known by the name of ‘Celestial burial is associated with the Tibetan culture, although it does exist in other civilisations and has done throughout history It might sound gruesome to people living in our current society but its values and philosophy are stunningly beautiful and virtuous. The Tibetans believe that there is a great honour in knowing that the body will go back to nature, and nourish some of nature’s creatures, In this case bearded vultures. A sky burial is the act of leaving a corpse, hacked into pieces by a burial master and exposed to the elements of nature. The burial master also smashes and grinds down the bones of the cadaver ,then leaving the corpse out in their selected open site. This was their way of offering a final honourable service to their material body; sending it back to the earth, and serving as an offering of a nutritional meal to the vultures.
