Comment on RIP Bozo
idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
They should bring back towers of silences, the traditional funeral method, used before Islam: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Silence
Comment on RIP Bozo
idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
They should bring back towers of silences, the traditional funeral method, used before Islam: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Silence
zikzak025@lemmy.world 4 days ago
There’s a major problem with these in parts of India, where certain painkillers that are often administered to dying people for palliative care are toxic to the carrion birds that are supposed to consume them. So populations of the birds have been dwindling and many of these towers are full of decomposing corpses that are left to rot a lot more slowly.
Other than the fuel needed for the incinerator, I don’t see what’s wrong with plain old cremation.
Tangent5280@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Yep, just read an article on this. And I didn’t read about any palliative care medicine, more because of animal meds - basically cattle treated with meds are, after they are no longer useful, sometimes abandoned instead of being killed humanely, meaning they die soonafter in public and urban locations, the carrion birds eat these corpses and the toxins accumulate in their bodies.