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	Funeral Customs of the Northern Khants URL: http://folklore.ee/folklore/vol7/khants.htm ODP description: Funerary practices of a West Siberian tribe in the last quarter of the 20th century.
	DearDeath Central URL: http://www.deardeath.com/ ODP description: Explores the faces of death across art, societies and rituals, science and medicine. Page title: Home Page description: Dear Death is your first source of information about death and afterlife. Explore the many faces of death across arts, culture and history. Including pictures gallery and archives.
	Funeral Customs in Yunnan Province, China URL: http://www.chinavista.com/experience/funeral/funeral.html ODP description: Describes funerary practices in a Chinese village. Page description: The Funeral Customs of a village in Yunnan Province, China
	Backcountry Death Ways URL: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG97/albion/adeath.html ODP description: Recounts how beliefs about death and dying brought by colonists from the Northern British Borderlands survive in the Chesapeake region and North Carolina.
	Orkney Islands URL: http://www.orkneyjar.com/tradition/death/death2.htm ODP description: Binding the dead. Page title: Orkneyjar - Traditions of Death - Binding the Dead Page description: Funerary Customs and the Traditions of Death
	The Call of Yama URL: http://www.kamat.com/indica/culture/death/ ODP description: Website exploring death according to Hindusim. Includes answers to frequently asked questions, and a photographic exhibit. Page title: Kamat's Potpourri: The Call of Yama Page description: The Call of Yama
	Deadly Superstitions URL: http://members.tripod.com/~mccurtain_2/genietips/tip1.html ODP description: American folk beliefs about death and burial; part of the extensive Tombstone Traveller's Guide to American cemeteries and funeral practices. Page title: Genie Tip 1 - Deadly Superstitions
	Bali Royal Cremation - photos by Max Buten URL: http://buten.net/max/Bali/index_baliroyalcremation.html ODP description: Description and pictures of Balinese cremation ceremonies. Page title: Bali Royal Cremation Page description: Bali Royal Cremation
	Gravestone Symbolism & Iconography URL: http://members.aol.com/TombView/symbol.html ODP description: Ever wonder what the skull and crossbones represents on a gravestone? Page title: Tomb With A View's Guide to Gravestone Symbolism
	"Until Death Us Do Part": Marriage and Funeral Rites in Classical Athens URL: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/classes/JSp.html ODP description: Article on ceremonies of marriage and death in ancient Athens, implications for status of Athenian women.
	Death and Afterwards URL: http://folklore.ee/folklore/vol8/mds.htm ODP description: Very interesting account of a Greek Catholic Baltic Finnic people's beliefs in death, omens of death and the afterlife. Page title: DEATH AND AFTERWARDS
	History Of Funeral Customs URL: http://www.wyfda.org/basics_2.html ODP description: Good introduction from the Wyoming Funeral Directors Association site.
	Aging and Death in Folklore URL: http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/aging.html ODP description: Examples from folklore divided by subject rather than region.
	Orkney Islands URL: http://www.orkneyjar.com/tradition/death/ ODP description: Omens of Death Page title: Orkneyjar - Funerary Customs and the Traditions of Death Page description: Funerary Customs and the Traditions of Death
	Death: Burial Customs and Beliefs URL: http://library.thinkquest.org/16665/burialframe.htm ODP description: Death customs and beliefs in various regions and countries of the world.
	Funeral Customs of Caucasian Estonians URL: http://folklore.ee/folklore/vol5/mikko.htm ODP description: How Estonian settlers in Caucasian Abkhazia preserved -- and changed -- their traditional customs and beliefs surrounding death and burial during the 20th century. Page title: FUNERAL CUSTOMS OF CAUCASIAN ESTONIANS