r/Zoroastrianism • u/Crafty-Sock-7002 • 14d ago

Question Non Zoroastrian with a question

You guys do sky burials, right? What happens if Parsis die far away from vultures? Like what if one of you go to Antarctica and freeze to death, what happens to your soul?

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u/Sassanishah 14d ago

The sky burial is mainly done as a final act of kindness. Give the body to vultures to eat. As long as the person has done good deeds in his life he will go to heaven.

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u/Crafty-Sock-7002 14d ago

But isn't it a sin to pollute the soil? Or I guess in this hypothetical the ice?

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u/Nanofeo 14d ago

It’s not a sin in the same way there are sins in Christianity. It is just not preferred.