Here, Living With Dead Bodies for Weeks—Or Years—Is Tradition | National Geographic
On the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, the Torajan people believe that a person is not truly dead until water buffalo have been sacrificed at their funeral, serving as the vehicle to the afterlife. Until that time, the bodies are may be kept at the family’s home for weeks, months or years and are fed and cared for as if they were alive. Some Torajans continue their relationship with the dead through a ma’nene’ ceremony, a type of “second funeral” in which families bring out their ancestors every few years and change their clothes and clean their bodies and crypts.
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If I’m about to die living in this culture, I’m shove myself into that buffalo
How is the govt not doing anything to halt the tradition
Not the poor buffalos, why would they not treat them well except the dead bodies
People talking about poor buffaloes as if they didn’t have meat last night.
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World needs to learn about life and death from Hinduism..(The way of living)
Proud to be Indonesian 😀
They’re selling chocolate
Disturbing yet fascinating did not like the imagery much but I could understand why these people would want to hold on to their family but find it kind of disturbing that they do
Anjay
Don’t they smell?
imagine if you play this documentary in the tv of the resturant or fastfood while they are eating soup and bbq or meat stew lol
everybody has to die their time in this world is decided but why tf would you sacrifice animal. they have nothing to do with someone’s death. Stop doing this to poor animals.!!!
I searched up giving this front an human face
Setiap negara pasti ada budaya dan adat masing masing❤️Hi from Malaysia✨
So to pay respects to a lost life, your culture takes a life in a painful way? Thank god I live in a first world country..
Everybody gangsta until they all start walking
They could kill the animals faster and not let them suffer so long ffs
Buffalo killing terrible
It’s these traditions which show how foolish some ppl r in d world
Necrophilia is all I have to say to get on reddit with this comment
The most disturbing thing isn’t just the dead body,its the beaten buffalo.
The soul passes to the next body or to heaven. There is no point preserving the body. Hindus cremate the body based on this concept. I am not this body I am not this mind.
Very bad peoples paster
I never relise that sulawesi do dis ;-;
Didnt they smell??
Everybody gangsta until corpses start moving
No this is just ugly cruel and disgusting not ok to kill helpless and innocent animals there all sick
If you believe in Karma, then there is no question as to why Indonesians live in the state they do, and have so many insanely catastrophic disasters.
Why is Everyone a little mean to us? (Im an indonesia) i know our culture is bit weird and rude to the other living thing, but the way of our to have the buffalo is only on torajan vilage so were not always torture the buffalos and its likely happen 1 or 2 yearsafter the dead of an people not in our entire country and they most likely is not an Muslim but an Hindu or something like that. We know Our culture is a little bad but this a Tradition sorry this just for an Info 😀
Imma check you comment :v
At the end it sounds scary 3:56
I can’t unsee what i seen
SAVE THE BUFFALO
I Love You Toraja…
None of these people were able to get past the first stage of GRIEF they still denying that the loved ones are even dead, somebody send an entire coalition of Psychiatrists and psychologists. Just kidding.
2:46 Dressed while dead
Indonesiaaaa
Life without TV or Internet folks……I’d probably be doing the same. Granpa can we play hide and seek but no hiding in your coffin again as it took me a whole year to find you last year! !
Those poor buffalos RIP cute buffalos
I feel with this tradition it might create some necrophiliacs. No disrespect