Examples from folklore divided by subject rather than region.

Jana Shopkorn's essay on ritual and ceremony in Ancient Greece.

Funerary practices of a West Siberian tribe in the last quarter of the 20th century.

Ever wonder what the skull & crossbones represents on a gravestone? Here's an extensive guide.

Good introduction from the Wyoming Funeral Directors Association site.

Describes funerary practices in a Chinese village.

How Estonian settlers in Caucasian Abkhazia preserved -- and changed -- their traditional customs and beliefs surrounding death and burial during the 20th century.

Recounts how beliefs about death and dying brought by colonists from the Northern British Borderlands survive in the Chesapeake region and North Carolina.

Very interesting account of a Greek Catholic Baltic Finnic people's beliefs in death, omens of death and the afterlife.

Omens of Death

Binding the dead.

American folk beliefs about death and burial; part of the extensive Tombstone Traveller's Guide to American cemeteries and funeral practices.

Death customs and beliefs in various regions and countries of the world.

Website exploring death according to Hindusim. Includes answers to frequently asked questions, and a photographic exhibit.

Description and pictures of Balinese cremation ceremonies.

Explores the faces of death across art, societies and rituals, science and medicine.