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The Hanging Coffins of China

kamalktk

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Seems like there would probably already be a thread for this somewhere, but I couldn't find one.

A group of people in China used to put their dead in coffins, hanging thirty or more meters up steep cliffs.

http://www.cnn.com/travel/article/china-hanging-coffins/index.html

more at link above
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Wong, who began his career as a journalist with National Geographic, first came across a group of coffins perched 90 meters (300 feet) up a cliff face in southern Sichuan, to the north of Guizhou, in 1985 during an expedition to track the Yangtze River from mouth to source.
 

A bit about it, amazing how they got them up there, seems a lot of trouble to go thro
 
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