Meaning of sky burial | Babel Free

Definitions

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.

countable, uncountable

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Examples

““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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