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10 things you can do with a corpse (10 photos)
No, it goes on how to get rid of the evidence, if a neighbor with a drill still exhausted your patience some Sunday morning. We just tell you what non-traditional burial practice or practiced before in the world. Well, just in case.
1. Mummification
Let's start with the well-known: you can mummify a corpse, if you suddenly for some reason needed a mummy. To make a mummy, you need to learn from the dead man's insides and wrap bandages on the principle of papier-mache. Then put in a pyramid.
2. Cryonics
This method is suitable to you if you want to ever more then communicate with the deceased. Freeze the body in liquid nitrogen, and then patiently wait until scientists invent the water of life or any of its counterpart. Then thaw and revive.
3. Balinese cremation
If you decide that it is easier to burn a corpse than to mess with the disposal, take him to Bali. In contrast to the gloomy Western traditions, is buried here resemble bright carnival. To accompany the deceased on his last journey parade, lay it in the Balinese ceremonial vessel in the form of a bull and burn.
4. plastination
You can turn the body into a work of art, exposing his plastination method developed by Gunther von Hagens. Exhibits of his world-famous exhibition «Body Worlds» are the bodies of the people with whom Carefully remove the skin, muscles dry and touched up, a body full of special plastic for safety and are installed in different positions.
5. The method of Neanderthals
It is very simple: to get rid of the corpse, hide it in the cave. That is what the Neanderthals about 100,000 years ago, so that scientists can still find them and study the caves better than sarcophagi body protection.
6. Marsh burial
... Or drown it in the swamp. In the Middle Ages people not only often drowned in the marshes of Europe, but also purposefully immersed in their dead instead of a funeral ceremony. What have archaeologists and anthropologists even more services than the Neanderthals: the chemical composition of the swamp keeps the body in an almost perfect condition as long as you want.
7. Heaven burial
Tibetans can not bury the body in the land, as the land in the mountains and rocks big deficit. Instead, the relatives of the deceased belong to the top of some of the nearest mountain and left to be devoured by wild beasts. It is believed that this method provides a direct and fast delivery soul straight to heaven. To further speed up the process, the body is sometimes cut into small pieces and mixed with milk and flour, to pinpoint any pieces left.
8. Burial in Viking
To get rid of the corpse in the tradition of the medieval Vikings, you need to do: grow a beard, wear a horned helmet, to build a ship, put in a dead man, weapons, jewelry, food, servants, animals, and send it to burn into the sea. Destination - Valhalla, she's "Hall of Odin».
9. Funeral tree
In Australia, British Columbia and some other places, people have decided that there is nothing better in getting rid of the corpse, than drag it to the tree. To do this, they are pre-wraps the body in a shroud, on the branches of a tree and leave the funeral decompose alone.
10. Tower of Silence
Zoroastrians borrowed the method of burial among the Tibetans, but gave his own grim ideology: as the body is impure and should not pollute the earth, it is necessary to carry somewhere higher and away and wait for him will not remain just dried bones. These bones then be collected and dissolved in lime. Quite a long and tedious business, so we recommend that you still go to the corpse in Bali.
1. Mummification
Let's start with the well-known: you can mummify a corpse, if you suddenly for some reason needed a mummy. To make a mummy, you need to learn from the dead man's insides and wrap bandages on the principle of papier-mache. Then put in a pyramid.
2. Cryonics
This method is suitable to you if you want to ever more then communicate with the deceased. Freeze the body in liquid nitrogen, and then patiently wait until scientists invent the water of life or any of its counterpart. Then thaw and revive.
3. Balinese cremation
If you decide that it is easier to burn a corpse than to mess with the disposal, take him to Bali. In contrast to the gloomy Western traditions, is buried here resemble bright carnival. To accompany the deceased on his last journey parade, lay it in the Balinese ceremonial vessel in the form of a bull and burn.
4. plastination
You can turn the body into a work of art, exposing his plastination method developed by Gunther von Hagens. Exhibits of his world-famous exhibition «Body Worlds» are the bodies of the people with whom Carefully remove the skin, muscles dry and touched up, a body full of special plastic for safety and are installed in different positions.
5. The method of Neanderthals
It is very simple: to get rid of the corpse, hide it in the cave. That is what the Neanderthals about 100,000 years ago, so that scientists can still find them and study the caves better than sarcophagi body protection.
6. Marsh burial
... Or drown it in the swamp. In the Middle Ages people not only often drowned in the marshes of Europe, but also purposefully immersed in their dead instead of a funeral ceremony. What have archaeologists and anthropologists even more services than the Neanderthals: the chemical composition of the swamp keeps the body in an almost perfect condition as long as you want.
7. Heaven burial
Tibetans can not bury the body in the land, as the land in the mountains and rocks big deficit. Instead, the relatives of the deceased belong to the top of some of the nearest mountain and left to be devoured by wild beasts. It is believed that this method provides a direct and fast delivery soul straight to heaven. To further speed up the process, the body is sometimes cut into small pieces and mixed with milk and flour, to pinpoint any pieces left.
8. Burial in Viking
To get rid of the corpse in the tradition of the medieval Vikings, you need to do: grow a beard, wear a horned helmet, to build a ship, put in a dead man, weapons, jewelry, food, servants, animals, and send it to burn into the sea. Destination - Valhalla, she's "Hall of Odin».
9. Funeral tree
In Australia, British Columbia and some other places, people have decided that there is nothing better in getting rid of the corpse, than drag it to the tree. To do this, they are pre-wraps the body in a shroud, on the branches of a tree and leave the funeral decompose alone.
10. Tower of Silence
Zoroastrians borrowed the method of burial among the Tibetans, but gave his own grim ideology: as the body is impure and should not pollute the earth, it is necessary to carry somewhere higher and away and wait for him will not remain just dried bones. These bones then be collected and dissolved in lime. Quite a long and tedious business, so we recommend that you still go to the corpse in Bali.
