by Sarah Murray
ocean
with possessions
sangadil preparation for
standup
temporary
three-way
war dead
Zoroastrian
burning
bride effigy
paper gift
Burning Ghat
Bush, Nancy
Butler, Michael
butyric fermentation
Bylsma, Lauren M.
Cadaver Synod
cadaver tombs (transi)
Cairo
La Calavera Catrina (Lady of the Dead)
calcium phosphate
Calcutta
Callaghan, Sarah
Campbell, Billy
Campbell, Kimberley
Canetti, Elias
Cape Collinson Columbarium
Capela dos Ossos (Portugal)
Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo
children’s section
early visitors to
mummification process in
Caranci, John
caretakers for cremation (doms)
Caring for the Dead (Carlson)
Carlson, Lisa
casket couture
catharsis
Catholic cathedrals
Catholics, seventeenth-century Spanish
Caucasian mummies 1970s discovery in China
cave coffins, Sagada
death chairs tied to
shapes of
Cecily (Duchess of York)
Celebrations of Death (Metcalf/Huntington)
cell phones
cemeteries
Calcutta’s English
CWGC
Day of the Dead
in foreign lands
1960s Newark’s Jewish
tourism and
censorship of lamenting
Census Bureau, U.S.
ceremonies. See also death rites
bone turning
Iranian chain clusters
lamenting as feminine
Panca Maha Bhuta
Tasoua
chadors
Chai Wan Chinese Permanent Cemetery
chains for penance ceremony
chandelier of bones
Charlemagne
Charles (prince)
Chile
China
afterlife money in
Caucasian mummies discovered in
Chai Wan Chinese Permanent Cemetery
corpse walkers in
grave goods discovered in
Hungry Ghosts Festival in
Xian site in
Chinchorro people
Chinese culture
bagua
effigies in
home burials required in
intervention by deceased in
Chinese immigrants in U.S.
Chopin, Frédéric
Christianity
afterlife in
cremation and
in Sagada
Church of England
Church of San Pietro
Churchill, Winston
Civil War
embalming originating in
lock of hair from soldiers of
civilian deaths overseas
clothes
for burials
color of
Islamic dress code
Jewish tradition
for mourning and death
Clothes for Death (Kern)
coffee table coffin
coffins
bells on
cave
craftsmen
eco-
Empire State Building
England’s personalized
fantasy
furniture
imaginative
open
personalized
predesigned
production volume of
shapes of
super-size
uses for
coffin commission
arrival of coffin
colors for
shape decision
size test
Cohen, Adam
Cole, Luke
Collier’s
Colon, David Morales
colonial period
India
Oaxaca
color
of clothing
of coffin
Colourful Coffins
Coma
Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC)
community
death acknowledged by
funerals and
Condivi, Ascanio
Connor, Linda
Constantine, Charles
Corky Ra
corpses
bloating of
Capuchin Catacombs’
ceremonial bulls with
decay of
facial expressions on
friends and family’s moment with
living person resemblance of embalmed
making room for fresh
murder victim
punishment of
shipping
special powers of
storing
violence to
-walkers
Cortés, Hernán
cosmetizing
Costco
Country Landowner
Covarrubias, Miguel
cows, Balinese
Cox, Pat
Crandlemire, Scotty
cremation. See also ashes; burning
banning of
caretakers
Christianity and
creativity in Western
debates over
embalming prior to
Fa’s
history and efficiency of
popularity of lower-priced
resomation alternative to
statistics
technology
in Uganda
in Varanasi
water-based version of
in West
Cremation Association of America
cremation ceremonies, Balinese. See also Pelebon
celebratory mood of
cows in
crying during
effigies in
royal
social status in
spirit’s sense of direction lost in
transporting of body
Cremation Society of England
crematorium visit
Croatia
Crusades
crying. See also lamenting
cathartic effect of
cultural variations in
Crying (Descartes)
cults
of dead
of saints’ relics
cultures. See also specific cultures
afterlife viewed in different
crying variations in
lamenting and
remembering deceased in
CWGC. See Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Czech Republic. See Sedlec Ossuary
da Marsa, Modesto
dancing
Danse Macabre
with dead
Danforth, Loring M.
Daniel, Diane
Danse Macabre
Darwin, Charles
Davidson, Bill
Day of the Dead festival, Oaxaca
altars
cemeteries
dancing during
funeral during
marketplace during
skeletons
de Maupassant, Guy
De Miraculis Mortuorum (Kornmann)
de Witte, Marleen
dead. See also Day of the Dead festival; deceased
cults of
dancing with
feasts for
seven-year party for
skeletons commemorating
war
death
announcement of Fa’s
art mementos for one’s
away from home
chair
of civilians
overseas
clothes for mourning and
community acknowledgment of
dancing and
etiquette
evidence of
fear of
Good
modernization of
personifications of
plague of Black
Sagada’s rules for
schizophrenic relationship with
singing and
Death (May)
Death and Beyond: Death & Burial Rituals & Other Practices & Beliefs of the Igorots of Sagada, Mountain Province, Philippines (Piluden-Omengan)
death attitudes
Civil War
Fa’s
funeral industry and public
1990 survey of
in United States
death care industry
death rites. See also cremation ceremonies; ritual use of bones
afterlife as central to
bone turning ceremony
as costly
diverse forms of
in Greece
long processes in
necessity of
personal elements in
seriousness of following
The Death Rituals of Rural Greece (Danforth)
decay
deceased. See also spirits
gifts for
intervention by
messages from
relics of
remembering
repatriation of
saying good-bye creatively to
unclaimed
decomposition of hair
demographics, unclaimed deceased
demons, paper constructed Balinese
The Denial of Death (Becker)
Descartes, René
The Desert Sun
Dia de los Muertos. See Day of the Dead festival
diamond-encrusted skull
Diana (princess)
diaspora
DiMaggio, Joe
Dineley, Thomas
DNA
DNA 11
Doms (caretakers)
Donne, John
Doretti, Mercedes
Dorset
double burials
dragon of Pelebon
dreams
dress code. See also clothes
in Iran
Islamic
Dubrow, Marsha
EAAF. See Argentine Forensic Anthropology
Eassie, William
East Africa
Echo Valley, Sagada
eco-coffins
eco-graveyards
Ecstasy of St. Teresa (sculpture)
effigies
in Balinese cremation ceremonies
bride
Chinese homes having
Day of the Dead
Egypt
mummification in
El Mozote (El Salvador)
el Obeid, Kawther
El Salvador massacre of 1981
Eleanor of Aquitaine (queen)
Eleni (Greek village girl)
Ellsworth (colonel)
embalming
of Balinese nobles
Civil War origins of
cosmetizing after
deceptive practices and
environmental concerns over
expenditure
facial feature rebuilding in
fluid
history
mummification as forerunner of
pre-injection chemicals in
prior to cremation
process
in United States
Embalming: History, Theory and Practice
Empire State Building
England. See also Victorians; West Dorset, England
personalized coffins in
Princess Diana’s death impact in
West Dorset
English cemeteries in foreign lands
environmental concerns
Eric (coffin maker)
eShopAfrica
Eternal Image
eternity
etiquette, death
Etruscan casket
eulogy
Europe
bone collections in
medieval
“Euthanasia” (Lord Byron)
Evangelicalism
EveryBody Coffins company
eviscerating
exhibits, plastinate bodies
exhumation
Exhumed
expo of funeral industry
The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (Darwin)
Fa (father)
afterlife view of
ashes of
brother of
burial location request of
church bells and
Church of England debates by
cremation of
death announcement
end-of-life conversation with
“How to End It!” folder of
instructional letter of
mother’s death
as optimistic atheist
philosophy on possessions
photograph
remembering
scattering ashes of
wine and toast farewell to
Facebook
facial expressions
corpses’
embalming process for
of mummies
facial features
famadihana (bone turning)
family
burials
differences over burials
fantasy coffins
Faust, Drew Gilpin
fear
of death
of live burial
feasts for dead
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Feld, Steven
feng shui
Ferdowsi (poet)
fetal position burials
Fiji mourners
Finch, John
fireworks of ashes
First Battalion Welsh Guards
Firth, Gay
Fisk, Almond J.
Fontal, Henri
Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (Hong Kong)
For the Love of God (Hirst)
forensics
Forethought Financial Group
Forster, E. M.
Francis, Peter
Franklin, Sidney
Frazer, James George
French Revolution
FTC. See Federal Trade Commission
funerals
basketball
community and
costly
dancing at
guest list for
happy
humanist
Irish wakes
in Oaxaca
open-coffin
planning own
Sagada
Shinto
funeral industry. See also death care industry
afterlife possessions marketed in
ashes made into jewelry in
death attitudes of public and
expo
Mitford’s exposé of
money making in
online aspect of
funerary tailors
furniture coffins
Ga craftsmen
Gandhi, Gopalkrishna
Gandhi, Mohandas Karmachand
Ganges river
Garson, Greer
Gede Raka, Tjokorda
Ghana
costly funerals in
fantasy coffins in
funeral dancing parties in
ghosts
ghost bikes
gifts for deceased
Glass and Ceramic Museum
Gods, Ghosts, and Ancestors (Jordan)
Good Death
Goodlad, Martha
Gore, Catherine
Gorer, Geoffrey
Grand Bazaar, Tehran
Gratton-Fisher, John
grave goods
Grave Matters (Harris)
graveyards
eco-
&nb
sp; in Hong Kong
Newark’s Jewish community
undiscovered
Greece
crying in
death rites in
Hellenistic
green burials
Greenberg, Jeff
grief. See also mourning
Guillermoprieto, Alma
Gujarat
Gulian, Dave
Hadrian
Hafiz
hair
decomposition
Hamlet
Hancock, George
Hardy, Thomas
Harris, Mark
Hart Island
Hartley, Debbie
head scarf
headstones
hearses
heavy metal bands (music)
Hellenistic Greece
Hendriks, Michelle
Henry (abbott)
Hertz, Robert
Hinduism
Balinese
burials for war dead
reincarnation in
Hirst, Damien
history
Bali’s religious
cremation
embalming
mummification
plays
Holland, Henry Scott
Holmes, Thomas
Homer
Hong Kong. See also Qing Ming festival
burial space shortage in
graveyards in
Horace
Hot Rod Caskets
The Hour of Our Death (Ariès)
“How to End It!” folder
Howard, Jim
Howard’s End (Forster)
Hudson, Christine
human bones. See bones, human
humanist funerals
Hungry Ghosts Festival
Huntington, Richard
Husayn (Imam)
commander of
martyrdom of
murder of
Husseinia (religious hall)
The Hut
Igorots
Christianity and
Iliad (Homer)
immortality
India
ash-scattering location in
burials in colonial
Parsis of
suttee in
Ingham, Albert
Ingresso Catacomb
International Scattering Society
Iran
cultural roots of lamenting in
self-whipping in
Iraq
Ireland
Irini (mother of Eleni)
Islam
dress code in
Sunni and Shi’a branches of
Island of Bali (Covarrubias)
Italy
Jacobs, John
Jade Emperor (Yu Wang)
Jae-hyun, Chung
Jalland, Pat
James, William
Jefremovas, Villia
Jews, Black Death era massacre of
jewelry
Jewish cemeteries in Newark
Jewish traditions
sitting shiva
John, Oliver
John (of four evangelists)
Johnson, Ben
Johnson, Gregory
Johnson, Jenny
Jordan, David K.
journalist
Julius II (pope)
Kaluli people
Karbala battle
religious history play of
keening in Ireland
Kensington Palace
Kern, Margareta
Kienholz, Ed
king makers, relics as
King of Hell
Kipling, Rudyard
Klaeysen, Anne
Klinenberg, Eric
Korea Association of Thanatology
Kornmann, Heinrich
Kruskopf, Sue
Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth
Kutná Hora
Kuwono, Peter Borkety
Lady of the Dead (La Calavera Catrina)