What rituals do Zoroastrians carry out after someone dies?
Zoroastrians believe that death represents the victory of evil over good. As a result, they dispose of corpses as quickly as possible, with minimum impact on the living. In India and Pakistan, this has traditionally meant laying the body in a dokhma – a confined consecrated building also known as the tower of silence. Here, dead bodies are consumed by vultures and their bones destroyed by lime in a deep pit.
