The Self-Mummifying Ascetics of Japan

Over a hundred tried, but just a few dozen succeeded. Living in the mountains, drinking arsenic-laced water, lacquer, and starving nearly to death - the life and death of the sokushinbutsu, the Japanese who mummified themselves. Evan s twitter: https://twitter.com/Evan_Hadfield Francesco s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/frapetitti/ Our Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rareearthseries/ The music for this video was graciously provided by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is Creative Commons, and he is no doubt unaware we re using it, but hey. I still think he s great for letting it happen. http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1500075&Search=Search Thanks for watching! You re clearly one of the good ones.