The Tibetan Sky Funeral Is Wild

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:00]The most gnarly postmortem is the Tibetan sky funeral. Do you know how they do that? No.

[00:00:06]>> [laughter] >> Vultures.

[00:00:08]They literally break the body up, chop it up into chunks, and the vultures know it, and so they prepare. So, the vultures are all hanging around waiting.

[00:00:16]Wow. It is a a tradition in Tibet with at least certain people to get rid of their bodies that way. And the idea is that look, the person's dead. This is a more natural way, you know, and they'll cycle back into the ecosystem, the way it's supposed to be with all animals.

[00:00:33]We're the only animal that opts out of like rejoining with all biological life. Cuz it's supposed to be a biological body deteriorates underground that feeds the soil that feeds, you know, whatever animals feast on its bones, and then it becomes all part of this big beautiful cycle. We're like, "Nah, we've got some chemicals laying around.

[00:00:58]We'd like to fill the veins up with to make them completely poison so that they never deteriorate, or they just slowly turn into gelatinous sludge."