Dave Uebele wrote: > There is/was some culture that disposed of its bodies by > building a high tower and letting the vultures feed on the body, > because to bury the body was to taint the earth, to burn the body > was to taint the air, etc Its always sounded the most > resonable to me, though probably wouldn't work with the volume > of bodies in a large city... That's in India as well. A friend visited such a site and told me about it. The problem is that vultures and other carrion birds feed in the tower and carry off bits to feed the nestlings etc. The city reservoir is adjacent and they often drop stuff into the water. The result is that the water supply is rather disgusting. OT --- Don't paddle there. Mike *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Jul 19 1999 - 19:01:54 PDT
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