The small, prosperous Parsi community of people in India leave their dead out naked in the forest to be consumed by vultures. [99percentinvisible.org] — Learning about this tradition horrified me at first — but only for an instant. The Parsi tradition is no weirder than burying dead people, burning them up, or chucking them in the ocean. The Parsi tradition just seems revolting to me because I’m not used to it.
