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Hanging coffins are an ancient funeral custom where wooden coffins are placed on cliff faces, in caves or suspended from overhangs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prominently practiced by the\u00a0Igorot people<\/a>\u00a0in Sagada, Philippines, and historically by the\u00a0Bo people<\/a>\u00a0in China, this practice brings the dead closer to heaven, protects bodies from animals and looters, and honors ancestors<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hanging coffins are an ancient funeral custom where wooden coffins are placed on cliff faces, in caves or suspended from overhangs. Prominently practiced by the\u00a0Igorot people\u00a0in Sagada, Philippines, and historically by the\u00a0Bo people\u00a0in China, this practice brings the dead closer to heaven, protects bodies from animals and looters, and honors ancestors<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":990,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":996,"href":"https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions\/996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}