Tourists watch body bathed in River Ganges and traditional Hindu cremation on funeral pyre at Manikarnika Ghat in Holy City of Varanasi, Benares, India

Body burning on funeral pyre at Hindu cremation at Manikarnika crematorium Ghat in Holy City of Varanasi, Benares, India

Mourners with bodies for Hindu cremation at Harishchandra Ghat crematorium in Holy City of Varanasi, Benares, India

Mourners with body for Hindu cremation at Harishchandra Ghat electric crematorium in Holy City of Varanasi, Benares, India

Tourists watch body bathed in River Ganges and traditional Hindu cremation on funeral pyre at Manikarnika Ghat in Holy City of Varanasi, Benares, India

Body bathed in River Ganges and traditional Hindu cremation on funeral pyre at Manikarnika Ghat in Holy City of Varanasi, Benares, India

Body burning on funeral pyre at Hindu cremation at Manikarnika crematorium Ghat in Holy City of Varanasi, Benares, India

Mullein Shargacucullia verbasci moth caterpillars feeding on wild poppy plant in English country garden, UK

Muslims pray to the east during a funeral in the desert, Burkina Faso, formerly Upper Volta, Africa

Dead hedgehog on country road, Swinbrook, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

Snow covered gravestones in Hampstead Parish churchyard, London, United Kingdom

Lamb suckling from its mother, the Cotswolds, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom, UK.

Baby buzzard in barn, Asthall, The Cotswolds, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom

A young boy in a checked shirt and red knitted hat in the doorway of a fruit and vegetable shop in Patan, Nepal

A mother carrying her child and queuing for food handouts withother women at Mother Teresa's Mission in Calcutta, India

With flies around his nose a child holds onto his mother's necklace at Gorom Gorom Hospital in Burkina Faso

Child held close in a shawl wrap, Nigeria

Old man walking with a stick in Beijing in China

Poor women queuing for food at Mother Teresa's Mission in Calcutta, India

A holy man crouching at the Pashupatinath Temple on the Bagmati River in Nepal. It is one of the holiest Hindu Temples in the world.

Poor women queuing for food at Mother Teresa's Mission in Calcutta, India

Gravestone aged with lichens in the churchyard graveyard at Landewednack, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom

Car drives past dead deer on country road, Charlbury, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

A veiled woman, in brightly coloured robes holding her baby while watching a village festival in Nalu, Rajasthan, India

Woman with umbrella walks past snow covered graveyard, Hampstead, North London, United Kingdom

Man cycling along country lane near Coates in Gloucestershire, England

Snow-covered gravestones in Hampstead Parish Graveyard in Church Row and Holly Place in Hampstead, North London, UK

A smiling mother holds her two children in the township of Soweto, South Africa

Snow covered monument and gravestones in Hampstead Parish churchyard, London, United Kingdom

Snow-covered gravestones in Hampstead Parish Graveyard in Church Row and Holly Place in Hampstead, North London, UK

Mother with child in a baby carrier, Hong Kong

Funeral procession, Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta)

Gravestones in churchyard at All Saints Church in Church Lench, Worcestershire, UK

Gravestones in churchyard at All Saints Church in Church Lench, Worcestershire, UK

Woman with tribal markings on her face holding her baby close, Northern Nigeria

Woman and girl child in rural Nepal.

Snow-covered gravestones in Hampstead Parish Graveyard in Church Row and Holly Place in Hampstead, North London, UK

Gravestone in churchyard at All Saints Church in Church Lench, Worcestershire, UK

Child in a queue waiting to enter the Forbidden City in Beijing, China

Ancient tomb in St Peter and St Paul Churchyard, Broadwell, The Cotswolds, Oxfordshire, UK

Old man in Beijing,China

Slate tombstones in Landewednack Churchyard, Cornwall

Omani men at the University of Oman in Muscat, Oman

Veteran in military cap looking at war graves in Commonwealth war cemetery, Normandy, France.

Snow-covered gravestones in Hampstead Parish Graveyard in Church Row and Holly Place in Hampstead, North London, UK

Women queuing with their children at the rural hospital at Basse in Gambia

Man with a view in Evora, Portugal

Vultures, drigung. bodies what we most attached to, says of monks. Thats offering ones body carries greatest merit. believe that should benefit other beings at every stage of ones life. After completion of powa ceremony, corpse is traditionally offered to great vultures lammergeiers that frequent charnel grounds. Vultures descend on flayed corpse. Offering bodies to birds is same as reciting mantras. It brings merit benefit to dead person as well as to family friends bring here. While cutting up corpse i to keep a pure compassionate mind. would feel if someone felt cutting up your body. -tomdenla. Tibet

Dancing competition of girls at Highland Games at Ballater Scotland

Dancing competition of girls at Highland Games at Ballater Scotland

Excursion boats at a landing stage on the Rio Negro river, Manaus, Brasil

Life size handcrafted wooden figures illustrate the various stages of winemaking and distilling, as practiced in the 1900s, on display at the Wine Museum of Estancia El Cuadro, Casablanca Valley, Valparaiso Region, Chile

Life size handcrafted wooden figures illustrate the various stages of winemaking and distilling, as practiced in the 1900s, on display at the Wine Museum of Estancia El Cuadro, Casablanca Valley, Valparaiso Region, Chile

Life size handcrafted wooden figures illustrate the various stages of winemaking and distilling, as practiced in the 1900s, on display at the Wine Museum of Estancia El Cuadro, Casablanca Valley, Valparaiso Region, Chile