What are hanging coffins? \u00a0Hanging coffins are real coffins where the deceased are placed inside. \u00a0Except that instead of being buried in the ground, they are hung on cliffs. \u00a0These can be found in some parts of\u00a0China, Indonesia, and the Philippines.<\/p>\n
Some are cantilevered out on wooden stakes. Some are placed in caves. \u00a0And sometimes they sit on projections in the rock.<\/p>\n
Some theorize<\/a> that it puts the deceased closer to heaven. \u00a0This practice was believed to have started way back in 8th century BC. \u00a0But is not really practiced today. \u00a0As you can guess,\u00a0it would have taken a bit of work to put them up there.<\/p>\n See article here<\/a> and picture on wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What are hanging coffins? \u00a0Hanging coffins are real coffins where the deceased are placed inside. \u00a0Except that instead of being buried in the ground, they are hung on cliffs. \u00a0These can be found in some parts of\u00a0China, Indonesia, and the Philippines. Some are cantilevered out on wooden stakes. Some are placed in caves. \u00a0And sometimes … Continue reading What are Hanging Coffins?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-2298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","tag-tidbit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bng.als.mybluehost.me\/funandeducational\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bng.als.mybluehost.me\/funandeducational\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bng.als.mybluehost.me\/funandeducational\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bng.als.mybluehost.me\/funandeducational\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bng.als.mybluehost.me\/funandeducational\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2298"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bng.als.mybluehost.me\/funandeducational\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2368,"href":"https:\/\/bng.als.mybluehost.me\/funandeducational\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298\/revisions\/2368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bng.als.mybluehost.me\/funandeducational\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bng.als.mybluehost.me\/funandeducational\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bng.als.mybluehost.me\/funandeducational\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}