Taboo
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This is another interesting documentary shown on Art Central, produced by National Geographic. First episode was on food. One man's delicious food is another man's horrible object. Durian is an good example. Asians love it while Europeans hate it. Eating snake, dog or even cockroaches may be taboo for many of us, but are loved by others. Second episode was on death. In Indonesia, the dead was kept with the living for as long as a month and treated as alive. Food are brought to them daily until they save enough to give the dead grand burial ritual even when they can't even afford to feed themselves. Relatives have to spent up to a year worth of their income to purchase a pig or even cow as offering. A house is build to keep the coffin locked inside for the dead to continue living their afterlife inside. But in India, the dead was treated as an empty shelf. The dead body was burned in the public beside the river without any cover and the remaining thrown into the river. And in America, some doctors cut up dead body to investigate how they die. So what is right and what is wrong? It's all relative...
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Originally posted by rlsh07:
But in India, the dead was treated as an empty shelf. The dead body was burned in the public beside the river without any cover and the remaining thrown into the river. And in America, some doctors cut up dead body to investigate how they die.
ya saw that sometime ago, very disgusting
Heard in china they left the dead body on top of the mountain for eagles to eat
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Originally posted by JerryYan:
ya saw that sometime ago, very disgusting
Heard in china they left the dead body on top of the mountain for eagles to eat
why dun just bury them? -
Originally posted by rlsh07:
why dun just bury them?
it's their custom to do it that way -
Originally posted by JerryYan:
it's their custom to do it that way
hmm.. so weird though -
Sounds like what I just watched on History Channel
It was in Tibet that they performed the Sky Burial. Vultures came down to eat the body while the monks watched. Same practice as the believers of Zoroastrianism.
Its to return the body to the nature.
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Originally posted by laurence82:
Sounds like what I just watched on History Channel
It was in Tibet that they performed the Sky Burial. Vultures came down to eat the body while the monks watched. Same practice as the believers of Zoroastrianism.
Its to return the body to the nature.
hmm.. nature? hmm.. -
just dump them into the river
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Originally posted by popikachu:
just dump them into the river
so cruel like that though -
where got cruel?
It is just a empty shell :lol: -
Originally posted by popikachu:
where got cruel?
It is just a empty shell :lol:
but hor they dun haf feelings one ar? -
Originally posted by rlsh07:
but hor they dun haf feelings one ar?it is just a home for us to live in...
just like your real home...
surely you won't go back or care whatever happen to you home after you moved out and stay another place right?
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Originally posted by popikachu:
it is just a home for us to live in...
just like your real home...
surely you won't go back or care whatever happen to you home after you moved out and stay another place right?
true true