Blogger Huixing assisted to witnessed a Tibetan sky burial [en] in Litang. At his blog [ja] a sequence of pictures document the traditional funerary practice wherein a human corpse is exposed to birds of prey.
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Wow, amazing to see this. I always wondered what it looked like. Strong images, not for everyone.