• Paragone@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    6 months ago

    There was a documentary, possibly on yt, a guy was trying to discover how a few Buddhist practicioners had failed to rot, after dying…

    He came to the conclusion that it was dehydration that enabled them to self-mummify, instead of rotting.

    1 corpse was in the Tibetan Buddhist area, another was in Japan.

    • pastermil@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      6 months ago

      Also, at least for the case of these Buddhist monks: some poisonous concoction they’d be building tolerance gradually to keep the decomposers away.