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These 6 shocking death rituals will astonish you

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Web Desk: Death is mortal and natural. But disposal of dead bodies vary from culture to culture. Here are some shocking traditions, in which funeral is taken to next level of macabre.

Take a look on these astonishing death ritual, will surely leave your eyes opened. Some of them are so weird and no longer be practiced.

Endocannibalism

It means “feasts of the dead”, in some culture, the best way to honor the dead is by eating them. According to them, by this way, you can make a permanent connection. Melanesians of Papua New Guinea and Wari people of Brazil, were associated with this funer5al tradition. No longer be practiced.

Tibetan Buddhist Celestial Burials

In some culture, the dead bodies were used to feed the animals.  The dead were chopped in to pieces and remain were given to particularly birds. Today 80% of Tibetan Buddhists choose sky burial.

Suspended Burials

Many centuries ago, in the Southwest of China, the people hanged the dead through wooden caskets at a height of almost 300 feet on rock.

Sati

It was Indian culture, in which recently widowed women had to commit themselves on their husband’s funeral pyre. In this way, the couple could live afterlife together. It is banned now.

Ritual Finger Amputation

To make the death of love one enough traumatic, the Dani people of New Guinea, had cut off their own fingers with an axe. This physical may give them sorrowful expression. The ritual is banned now.

Famadihana

The people of Madagascar, wrap the dead in fresh cloth, then with it around the tomb to live music caleed Famadihana means, “turning of the bones”.

Source: io9.gizmodo