Without reaching extremes such as the Egyptians, who believed he had to preserve the body for access to another life and was buried the dead with all kinds of luxuries, other civilizations distant devised their own ceremonies in accordance with their conception of order life in this world.In ancient China, when he was dying shaved head, he washed the body and was placed in a sitting position so that the soul could leave the body. In Christianity, is prepared to acquit going to die from their sins and giving the extremaunción.
Once the dead person, friends and family asked him to return the soul to make sure they leave the body had been short, and he tapaban orifices of the body with jade so that in this way, it could drive away evil spirits.
Other examples of amulets, would be the cross or the sacred bread of Christianity, or the figures of cattle cardboard stone surrounding the corpse at funerals animist Bali.
A Muslim custom requires that the dead must be buried facing Mecca. For its part, funerals Hindus perform a funeral procession at the place where the deceased is cremated. When this happens, the widow bows down before the funeral pyre (formerly just some burning in it, today is sometimes sacrificed a goat during the procession), and the remains of the deceased are released to the waters of a sacred river.
In Hinduism should also be one of the most famous mausoleums: the Taj Mahal in Agra built for the daughter of the Shah and Jaham in which about 20,000 people worked.
