Looking at a skeleton can be scary but there is more than that to human remains. Bones and skull were often associated with preservation of the body for afterlife and designed to form a connection between the generations, between the ancestors and the people who live today.

Why do we pay our respects to the dead? Isn’t it too late by then? Should we not show more respect for the living? Specifially what about the living dead?

Learn more about the burial laws in the state of Florida.

It was the tradition for many centuries for death masks to be made of monarchs, artists and politicians in the time directly after their demise. Take a look at the many faces of death.

The burial traditions in the villages of Jamaica in the 1930’s.

A brief account of history, reasons, and varieties in the topic of Native American tree and scaffold burial.

How much pollution will you go on causing after your death?

Studies prove this is the earliest shaman grave site.

Grandiose tombs from around the world.

Some of the newest ways to bury your loved ones.