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Incorruptibility - corpses preserved by proposed divine essence (en.wikipedia.org)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

There was a documentary, possibly on yt, a guy was trying to discover how a few Buddhist practicioners had failed to rot, after dying..

He came to the conclusion that it was dehydration that enabled them to self-mummify, instead of rotting.

1 corpse was in the Tibetan Buddhist area, another was in Japan.