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Caring for the Dead Jul 18th 2012, 11:06 The task of caring for the dead of Yushu fell to the monks. Tibetan monks prepare a mass cremation for the victims of a strong earthquake, on April 17, 2010, in Jiegu, near Golmud, China. Guang Niu/Getty Images More than 2,000 people died in the earthquakes, and disposing of bodies soon became a health issue. Because firewood is scarce and the ground often is frozen, Buddhists in this region generally practice "sky burial" -- breaking up the body and allowing vultures to eat it. But with so many dead at once, as one monk said, there were not enough vultures. Bodies were collected and taken to monasteries, where they were wrapped in whatever sheets and blankets that could be found, and prayed over. Then they were loaded into trucks and taken to open pit cremation sites.

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