sky burial

sky burial (countable and uncountable, plural sky burials)

1. A funeral practice in which a human corpse is placed atop a mountain or other outdoor structure to decompose or be eaten by scavenging animals.

   Synonym: wind burial

   Hypernym: excarnation

   • 2021, Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness, Canongate Books (2022), page 423:

     “A sky burial? What’s that?”
     “Just what it says. You bury them in the sky. They do it in Tibet and places. You bring the dead body to a mountain and leave it so they can be out in the open until they're not.”

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