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Every civilization had to answer the same question: what do we do when someone leaves?

Seven funeral rites — same farewell, infinite forms.

Cover — every civilization had to answer the same question: what do we do when someone leaves?
Mummification — Egypt
Ship burial — Vikings set sail into the afterlife
Sky burial — Tibet, returning the body to the sky
Towers of Silence — Zoroastrian funeral practice
Fantasy coffins — Ghana, shaped like a life lived
Toraja funeral ceremonies — Indonesia
The Terracotta Army — China
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Egypt preserved. Vikings set sail. Tibet returned the body to the sky. Ghana celebrates a life with coffins shaped like it — a fish, a plane, a lion. Same farewell, infinite forms.