Death and Funeral Customs

History Of Funeral Customs - Good introduction from the Wyoming Funeral Directors Association site.
http://www.wyfda.org/basics_2.html

Marriage and Funerals in Athens - Jana Shopkorn's essay on ritual and ceremony in Ancient Greece.
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/classes/JSp.html

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://folklore.ee/folklore/vol5/mikko.htm

DearDeath Central - Explores the faces of death across art, societies and rituals, science and medicine.
http://www.deardeath.com/

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

Bali Royal Cremation - photos by Max Buten - Description and pictures of Balinese cremation ceremonies.
http://buten.net/max/Bali/index_baliroyalcremation.html

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

Funeral Customs in Yunnan Province, China - Describes funerary practices in a Chinese village.
http://www.chinavista.com/experience/funeral/funeral.html

Orkney Islands - Omens of Death
http://www.orkneyjar.com/tradition/death/

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/

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

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

Aging and Death in Folklore - Examples from folklore divided by subject rather than region.
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/aging.html

Orkney Islands - Binding the dead.
http://www.orkneyjar.com/tradition/death/death2.htm

Death: Burial Customs and Beliefs - Death customs and beliefs in various regions and countries of the world.
http://library.thinkquest.org/16665/burialframe.htm

Gravestone Symbolism & Iconography - Ever wonder what the skull and crossbones represents on a gravestone?
http://members.aol.com/TombView/symbol.html