When a member of the Orogen community passes away, they hold what is called a 'wind funeral'. This is a tradition where they will take the deceased, and wrap the body in a hollowed out tree trunk and hung upside down from a tree branch until the corpse has decomposed. They will also kill the horse of the man or woman who passed, so that it can accompany their owner in the afterlife. Only the bodies of young people, or those who died from a contagious disease are cremated.
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