1. Aging and Death in Folklore - Examples from folklore divided by subject rather than region. 2. 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. 3. Bali Royal Cremation - photos by Max Buten - Description and pictures of Balinese cremation ceremonies. 4. Deadly Superstitions - American folk beliefs about death and burial; part of the extensive Tombstone Traveller's Guide to American cemeteries and funeral practices. 5. Death and Afterwards - Very interesting account of a Greek Catholic Baltic Finnic people's beliefs in death, omens of death and the afterlife. 6. Death Central on Monstrous - Explores the faces of death across art, societies and rituals, science and medicine. 7. Death: Burial Customs and Beliefs - Death customs and beliefs in various regions and countries of the world. 8. Funeral Customs in Yunnan Province, China - Describes funerary practices in a Chinese village. 9. Funeral Customs of the Northern Khants - Funerary practices of a West Siberian tribe in the last quarter of the 20th century. 10. Gravestone Symbolism & Iconography - Ever wonder what the skull & crossbones represents on a gravestone? Here's an extensive guide. 11. History Of Funeral Customs - Good introduction from the Wyoming Funeral Directors Association site. 12. Marriage and Funerals in Athens - Jana Shopkorn's essay on ritual and ceremony in Ancient Greece. 13. Orkney Islands - Omens of Death 14. Orkney Islands - Binding the dead. 15. The Call of Yama - Website exploring death according to Hindusim. Includes answers to frequently asked questions, and a photographic exhibit. 16. 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.

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