Sokushinbutsu is the ancient Buddhist monk practice of observing austerity to the point of death and mummification.

 

Rebecca Fung is a legal editor based in Sydney, Australia. She loves to edit in the light … but writing brings out her dark side. She has previously had her dark fiction published in Midnight Echo, Voluted Tales and Eclecticism magazines and is a regular contributor to the “Demonic Visions” anthology series. Her work has also been published in a number of other anthologies and her ebook “Dead Lucky” will be published by Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing in their “One Night Stands” series in October 2014.