Weird Death Rituals & Funerals Around The World

From making pyramids to launching ashes into space, humans do a lot of weird and odd things to their dead love ones. In this episode Nick and Mike talk about burial rituals of the dead. From corpses being sacrificed to vultures to QR codes being made to visit dead love ones and everything in between. Join us this episode as we dive into the fascinating and strange world of death rituals still in practice all over the world.

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