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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Nooo. Nope. Nuhuh. Not the same, not even close.

I suppose it depends on the farm.

“You have fields, just open fields, where recently deceased human bodies have been laid out for scientific study,” she tells Here & Now’s Peter O’Dowd.

One of the researchers’ most popular experiments is the so-called vulture study, where bodies are picked clean by the birds.

Mar said after word of the vulture study got out, one out of three donor inquiries the lab received asked specifically to be part of the vulture study.

“Something about this ritual taps into something that’s also relevant in some part of this country,” Mar said.

The practice of “sky burials” is found in some Native American and Buddhist traditions.

“It’s not legal in this country, but it’s happening by default for scientific rather than spiritual reasons in San Marcos,” Mar said.