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A profound, moving and frequently melancholy sight to the emigrant traveling down the river was the numerous burial islands of the Indians. Revering and paying honor to their dead, they had for centuries placed the deceased in burial grounds on the river islands.

...at the foot of the Dalles is an island called the Isle of the Dead on which there are many sepulchers these Indians usually inter their dead on the Islands in the most romantic situations where the souls of the dead can feast themselves with the roar of the mighty and eternal waters which in life tie afforded them sustenance and will to all eternity to their posterity.
--Nathaniel J. Wyeth, 1832

Böcklin painted five versions of Island of the Dead between 1880 and 1886. The image became one of the most beloved motifs in late nineteenth-century Germany, widely known through poor color reproductions and a freely adapted etching of the 1890s."

From the page: "Until recently, the potential environmental health risks due to decomposing human bodies have not been studied nor considered widely when siting cemeteries. This literature review covers both products produced during human decay and the fate of these decomposition products and byproducts on groundwater. "

From the page: "Cremation requires fossil fuels and older retorts can require twice as much energy as newer facilities. Over the past few decades, major reductions of particulate matter (PM), visible emissions (VE) and carbon monoxide (CO) have been measured in the cremation process and are not thought to pose the environmental risk they did in the past. According to the United Nations Environment Programme Report (Persistent Organic Pollutants Emission Inventory Guidebook), emissions from crematoria contribute 0.2% of the global emission of dioxins and furans."

From the page: Throughout the world, death and the rituals that surround it are steeped in taboos. Death is celebrated, embraced and feared. Around death and the dead, cultures put in place diverse restrictions and practices associated with clothing, food and ritual. This website explores what happens to us when we die and the different ways we deal with death.

From the page: Decomposition of a corpse is a continual process that can take from weeks to years, depending on the environment. In this website we have divided the process into stages, which are characterised by particular physical conditions of the corpse and the presence of particular animals. To illustrate the process of decomposition, we use the piglet as the model corpse.

From the page: "Het Centrum voor Thanatologie, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, richt zich op de wetenschappelijke studie van de omgang met en voorstellingen over sterven, dood en rouw. Daarnaast voorziet het centrum op het terrein van de thanatologie in de mogelijkheid tot opdrachtonderzoek, scholing en advisering."

From the page: "In the centre of the Mexican town of Mitla stands a run-down chapel on an overgrown pre-colonial pyramid. The chapel, housing three crosses, is the townâ€s Calvario, the local representation of the hill on which Christ died."