BY: TED BARNABY Most of us at one point or another have debated our own burial ceremony. Do we want to go six feet under, or be burned and set off into the atmosphere in a cloud of black smoke?…
People swim with rotting corpses in Varanasi to cleanse themselves of sin
BY: ALEXANDER DOWNHAM Western Judeo-Christian values have morphed death into an aspect of life we run from. But in Varanasi, India, death is something to anticipate and embrace. Varanasi – one of Hinduism’s seven holiest cities – was built between…
BASE Jumper Explains The Importance Of Accepting Death To Appreciating Life
BY: ROB HOFFMAN No matter how hard we try to live vicariously through their first-person footage, a GoPro simply cannot capture the feeling of participating in a sport where your primary competition is death. To some it seems crazy to…