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		AtlasLion on Sept 23, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Murdered body found after tree ‘unusual for the ar... This is exactly how Islamic burial works.

rsynnott on Sept 23, 2018 [–]

Also Jewish burial. And embalming and so on wasn't particularly common in majority-Christian countries until the 19th or 20th centuries, either (though I think coffins were).

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