How Diclofenac is killing Zoroastrianism
How Diclofenac is killing Zoroastrianism The Indian Vulture Crisis, sky burials and the end of the oldest religion? STONE AGE HERBALIST Only after I had lent a shoulder to three colleagues and carried Framroze up the hill, depositing him on the topmost step of one of the Towers; only after I had turned my back on him, and whipped the sheet off his naked corpulent body, clapping my hands loudly three times—which was the signal to let mourners gathered in the small temple garden know that the consecrated body of my father had been offered to the vultures to devour, that they should commence their prayers for the effortless transmission of his soul; only after all that was over and done with, and the mourners had left, and a deep silence had descended once again on the Towers, only then did the floodgates of my grief open, and I cried bitterly for my father whom I would never see again. - Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer, Cyrus Mistry He told this tale just as the ancients told it...