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Explores the faces of death across art, societies and rituals, science and medicine.
http://death.monstrous.com/
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Bali Royal Cremation - photos by Max Buten
Description and pictures of Balinese cremation ceremonies.
http://buten.net/max/Bali/index_baliroyalcremation.html
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The Call of Yama
Website exploring death according to Hindusim. Includes answers to frequently asked questions, and
a photographic exhibit.
http://www.kamat.com/indica/culture/death/
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Death: Burial Customs and Beliefs
Death customs and beliefs in various regions and countries of the world.
http://library.thinkquest.org/16665/burialframe.htm
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Deadly Superstitions
American folk beliefs about death and burial; part of the extensive Tombstone Traveller's Guide to
American cemeteries and funeral practices.
http://members.tripod.com/~mccurtain_2/genietips/tip1.html
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The Tombstone Traveller's Guide
Site exploring American cemeteries and funeral practices. Includes features on etiquette, historic
graveyards, essays and musings, and funeral facts, as well as information about funerary customs in
culture, photographs, and memorials.
http://www.tombstonetravel.com/
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Orkney Islands
Binding the dead.
http://www.orkneyjar.com/tradition/death/death2.htm
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Orkney Islands
Omens of Death
http://www.orkneyjar.com/tradition/death/
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Death and Afterwards
Very interesting account of a Greek Catholic Baltic Finnic people's beliefs in death, omens of
death and the afterlife.
http://folklore.ee/folklore/vol8/mds.htm
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Backcountry Death Ways
Recounts how beliefs about death and dying brought by colonists from the Northern British
Borderlands survive in the Chesapeake region and North Carolina.
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG97/albion/adeath.html
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Aging and Death in Folklore
Examples from folklore divided by subject rather than region.
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/aging.html
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Japanese Customs
wedding, funeral, celebration, how to take a bath and FAQ. Interesting section on funeral customs.
http://www.kt.rim.or.jp/~etshioda/customs.html
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Marriage and Funerals in Athens
Jana Shopkorn's essay on ritual and ceremony in Ancient Greece.
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/classes/JSp.html
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Funeral Customs of Caucasian Estonians
How Estonian settlers in Caucasian Abkhazia preserved -- and changed -- their traditional customs
and beliefs surrounding death and burial during the 20th century.
http://haldjas.folklore.ee/folklore/vol5/mikko.htm
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Funeral Customs in Yunnan Province, China
Describes funerary practices in a Chinese village.
http://www.chinavista.com/experience/funeral/funeral.html
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History Of Funeral Customs
Good introduction from the Wyoming Funeral Directors Association site.
http://www.wyfda.org/basics_2.html
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Gravestone Symbolism & Iconography
Ever wonder what the skull & crossbones represents on a gravestone? Here's an extensive guide.
http://members.aol.com/TombView/symbol.html
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Funeral Customs of the Northern Khants
Funerary practices of a West Siberian tribe in the last quarter of the 20th century.
http://folklore.ee/folklore/vol7/khants.htm
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