Directory of Death and Funeral Customs Resources

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• Aging and Death in Folklore

  http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/aging.html
  Examples divided by subject.

• Backcountry Death Ways

  http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG97/albion/adeath.html
  Recounts how beliefs about death and dying brought by colonists from the Northern British Borderlands survive in the Chesapeake region and North Carolina.

• Bali Royal Cremation - photos by Max Buten

  http://buten.net/max/Bali/index_baliroyalcremation.html
  Description and pictures of Balinese cremation ceremonies.

• Death and Afterwards

  http://folklore.ee/folklore/vol8/mds.htm
  Very interesting account of a Greek Catholic Baltic Finnic people's beliefs in death, omens of death and the afterlife.

• Funeral Customs in Yunnan Province, China

  http://www.chinavista.com/experience/funeral/funeral.html
  Describes funerary practices in a Chinese village.

• Funeral Customs of Caucasian Estonians

  http://folklore.ee/folklore/vol5/mikko.htm
  How Estonian settlers in Caucasian Abkhazia preserved -- and changed -- their traditional customs and beliefs surrounding death and burial during the 20th century.

• Funeral Customs of the Northern Khants

  http://folklore.ee/folklore/vol7/khants.htm
  Funerary practices of a West Siberian tribe in the last quarter of the 20th century.

• Orkney Islands

  http://www.orkneyjar.com/tradition/death/
  Rituals of death and burial.

• The Call of Yama

  http://www.kamat.com/indica/culture/death/
  Website exploring death according to Hindusim. Includes answers to frequently asked questions, and a photographic exhibit.

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