In the Christian requiem, the transition from life to death is first and foremost a spiritual reality. Something entirely different occurs in the Tibetan tradition of the 'sky burial': the deceased are literally handed over to the vultures, in order not to disguise their physical mortality.

The visual artist Mat Collishaw made a gripping film about our relationship to death, our own humanity, rituals and bond with nature – with Fauré’s Requiem as its soundtrack.