death ceremonies
Meet the Man Who Makes Molds of Dead People's Faces
Death masks are the final portrait: a literal mold of a person's face in the moments after they've died.
Tana Toraja Villagers Take Tomb Sweeping to a Morbid Extreme
The Tana Toraja regency on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi has an unusual death ritual: Every few years, families reunite to exhume the bodies of their deceased relatives, clean up the inside of their coffins, and sometimes give their ancestors a...
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