if you thought this was a practice long gone from a long extinct culture, think again. Sagada in the Mountain Province up north takes its visitors to an all-out tranquility therapy or mountain and spelunking adventure. If you're into the dead or the social science of anthropology, you'll find Sagada Genuine Guide's short documentation on the burial of a qualified (dead) subject's journey to Echo Valley. The corpse was buried in a prepared hanging coffin. Sort of looks odd having people in modern day clothing rather than in native costumes doing this.

The practice isn't typically practiced today, though there are still those who are qualified to be buried in this manner in Sagada who want to be buried this way.

Interestingly, this isn't practice isn't indigenous to the Philippines. They're also done in Indonesia and China in the provinces of Fujian, Hubei, Jiangxi, Sichuan, and Yunnan, and it's a practice known as Xuanguan.