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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.  Gravestone Symbolism & Iconography  - http://members.aol.com/TombView/symbol.html  Ever wonder what the skull & crossbones represents on a gravestone? Here's an extensive guide.  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.  Funeral Customs of Caucasian Estonians  - http://haldjas.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.  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/  Omens of Death  Orkney Islands  - http://www.orkneyjar.com/tradition/death/death2.htm  Binding the dead.  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.  Death Central on Monstrous  - http://death.monstrous.com/  Explores the faces of death across art, societies and rituals, science and medicine.