- 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.
- History Of Funeral Customs - http://www.wyfda.org/basics_2.html
- Good introduction from the Wyoming Funeral Directors Association site.
- Funeral Customs in Yunnan Province, China - http://www.chinavista.com/experience/funeral/funeral.html
- Describes funerary practices in a Chinese village.
- Marriage and Funerals in Athens - http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/classes/jsp.html
- Jana Shopkorn's essay on ritual and ceremony in Ancient Greece.
- Aging and Death in Folklore - http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/aging.html
- Examples from folklore divided by subject rather than region.
- 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.
- 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.
- Orkney Islands - http://www.orkneyjar.com/tradition/death/
- Orkney Islands - http://www.orkneyjar.com/tradition/death/death2.htm
- Deadly Superstitions - http://members.tripod.com/~mccurtain_2/genietips/tip1.html
- American folk beliefs about death and burial; part of the extensive Tombstone Traveller's Guide to American cemeteries and funeral practices.
- Death: Burial Customs and Beliefs - http://library.thinkquest.org/16665/burialframe.htm
- Death customs and beliefs in various regions and countries of the world.
- 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.
- Bali Royal Cremation - photos by Max Buten - http://buten.net/max/bali/index_baliroyalcremation.html
- Description and pictures of Balinese cremation ceremonies.
- 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.
- DearDeath Central - http://www.deardeath.com/
- Explores the faces of death across art, societies and rituals, science and medicine.
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