Ooh, I did see some "experiments" taking place, possibly here in California at one of the UC's.
I hadn't heard that term before, but it sounds.. "nice". Sky burial.
I feel like the have's.. compared to the have not's.. As long as I don't look at the real have's.. I KNOW that I could have just about anything.. I subscribe to the reason of the expensive burial being for disease control.. but it's really about the $.. in the US we are doing what we were taught.. NOT because it's right (environmentally) or what we want (morally) but because we were brainwashed.. I pledged allegiance to a flag as a child when I had NO clue what that meant.. I didn't know the TRUTH about the Native American Holocaust, nor would I have openly taken part in it. Today I pledge allegiance to Love.. right here on YOUR thread!
Also, you can see that I think we should ALL question EVERY thing we were taught and see how it lines up with reality.. and to never stop learning and growing.. recognize that's exactly what knowledge is.. a changing in understanding or perception.. Pluto isn't a planet any longer, and the sun isn't the center of the galaxy, Earth isn't flat.. extreme examples of reasons to remain open minded.. I cannot believe the sort of hate and bigotry I was taught about people who were
different than me.
Dress that image up in a way you can accept more easily then.

Letting something like an image eat you alive is a personal choice and hurts yourself terribly. If that "art" were a better outlet than someone kidnapping and using people for something sinister.. or they're using deceased or even humanely harvested animals.. it might still be better than keeping "weird" (different) tendencies bottled up until they burst out in more harmful ways or turn it inward and grow into mental illness.
I really want and need to address your statement about how cruel humans can be.. I thought that before keeping animals and watching nature.. Keep this as a window to grace.. now I know.. all of nature is brutal.. and it really isn't all blossoms and butterflies! I raised my kids with just about every other word out of my mouth being how much "I HATE people".. Alas, this chicken math adventures and time spent as a hermit and here on BYC has culminated in me loving, and accepting HUMANS for doing what comes natural to them!
Some behaviors not seen in humans VERY often but regularly in nature..
Rats eat their own young.. if they run out of food, water, or even just get too hot.
Bear males kill offspring of a female to bring her back into heat sooner.
Some ill females will be mated to death. Some species will continue to mate a dead animal. Some flocks will draw blood on an individual and get so excited by the taste might cannibalize that individual. In fact, chickens are prejudice.. and birds of a feather totally flock together.. isolating an individual who looks different.. even their own moms will ditch an oddball in nature..
I've seen female flock mates pull a new chick out from under a sitting broody and ultimately kill it. Most women would not kill another's offspring or make sure we ate before they did like chickens will. I share this because it has been very awakening and healing to realize that not all of mankind has risen above its' nature.. and (in addition to its' beauty) nature is (can be) cruel!
https://www.audubon.org/news/nature-cant-exist-without-suffering-and-we-cant-change
I no longer "hate" people. But realize people let me down verses I don't have much expectation from the animals. I'm familiar with people and familiarity breeds contempt. The reason some folks are kinder to strangers than those they claim to love.
Animals tend to wear their heart on their sleeves.. they don't hide how they are feeling.. they are manipulative though and jealous and communicate without words.. and without all the added layers of expectation.. We all need acceptance.. not all of us came into decent families or have the correct hormone/chemical balance in our brains/bodies to make the *right* (normally accepted) connections.
Ahh.. see, what I've come to is the freedom to make my own choice without judging others for theirs.. and feel super thankful for my awareness! But, nah.. I don't accept the label "what we've come to" and trade it for this is where we are but we're still heading... I know it's semantics, but I PROMISE your focus changes things! Use a horse for example.. make it go anywhere you want by which way you point it's head.