In Popular Culture
In issue 55 of Neil Gaiman's Sandman series (World's End: Cerements) there is a discussion of the principles of "air burial". The character Master Klaproth of the Necropolis Litharge (a city whose inhabitants are devoted to study of death and to the dignified disposal of the dead) comments on the practice thus:
- "I have, on occasion, reflected that the air burial is perhaps the truest reflection of what we do... Complete disposal of the client, in a handful of hours. Everything is given to the birds: the flesh, the lights, the meat, even the bones... Everything is swallowed by the sky" (pp.7–8).
Read more about this topic: Sky Burial
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