Alabaster likeness, tomb of Robert Lord Hungerford died 1459, Salisbury Cathedral, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Prayers for the deceased, Funeral ceremony in a Buddhist family, Tan Chau, Vietnam, Indochina, Southeast Asia, Asia

Reliefs, Temple of Opet, Karnak Temple Complex, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Luxor, Egypt, North Africa, Africa

Dead hedgehog on country road, Swinbrook, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

Seated Buddhist monks praying at Remembrance of the Deceased, Wat Ong Teu Mahawihan (Temple of the Heavy Buddha), Vientiane, Laos, Indochina, Southeast Asia, Asia

Car drives past dead deer on country road, Charlbury, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

Ancient tomb in St Peter and St Paul Churchyard, Broadwell, The Cotswolds, Oxfordshire, UK

Gravestone at St Oswalds Church, Widford, in the Cotswolds, Oxfordshire, UK

Nepal. Ritual, sonam/boom. Lobsangs cremation. Humla. traveler reached of journey! In freedom of infinite he is free from sorrow, fetters that bound thrown away, burning fever of life is no more,oesays dharmapada. Lobsang having spent whole life preparing moment of death, finds liberation on february 14, 1986. Extensive ritual follows cremation-traditionally a forty nine period, sonam lama rattles damaru. A small ritual drum to have origin in - shamanism. damaru, used as a tantric device to summon gods ward evil spirits, once made from human skull bone dreid human skin as a reminder of impermanence of body. Boom lama blows a kangling, a human thigh-bone horn. kangling is used in exorcism is capable of gods demons. Traditionally, best bones a kangling come from brahmans, particularly sixteen-year- brahman girls-or from tigers. On makeshift altar rest chhome, votive lamps filled with butter, cups of water, grains, tormas, holy food made of barley meal decorated with medallions of butter offered to gods. Alone, boom lama continues prayers of deceased

Women on sidewalk wearing skull face paint

Hispanic woman on sidewalk wearing skull face paint

Women leaning on loading dock wearing skull face paint

Caucasian woman laying on autumn leaves near train tracks in forest

Black family at military cemetery

American flag at cemetery gravestone

Black couple walking in military cemetery

Roses on cemetery gravestone

Black couple hugging in military cemetery

Hispanic woman standing on sidewalk wearing skull face paint

Hispanic woman near brick wall wearing skull face paint

Caucasian woman wearing black dress sleeping on grass

Caucasian widow holding American flag in cemetery

Women near brick wall wearing skull face paint

Women in car wearing skull face paint

American flag at cemetery gravestone

Caucasian widow placing American flag at cemetery gravestone

Women on sidewalk wearing skull face paint

Women on sidewalk wearing skull face paint

Hispanic woman wearing skull face paint

Mixed Race woman dancing on sidewalk wearing skull face paint

Hispanic woman driving car wearing skull face paint

Crucifixes and flowers hanging on memorial fence

Mixed Race woman on sidewalk wearing skull face paint texting on cell phone

Women on sidewalk corner wearing skull face paint

Mixed Race woman wearing scarf and skull face paint

Women on sidewalk wearing skull face paint

Women on sidewalk wearing skull face paint

Mixed Race woman on sidewalk wearing scarf and skull face paint

Caucasian girl sleeping in grass

Mixed Race woman on sidewalk wearing skull face paint

Multi-generation Black family hugging in military cemetery

Names of September 11 2001 victims, National September 11 Memorial, World Trade Center, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Timur,??s jade tomb, Gur Emir Mausoleum, (Gur Amir, Guri Amir, Gur-E Amir, and Gur-I Amir), Samarkand, Uzbekistan

Names of September 11 2001 victims, National September 11 Memorial, World Trade Center, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Tombs in Gumbazi Saidon Mausoleum, Dorut Tilovat Complex, Shakhrisabz, Uzbekistan

Detail of Terracotta funerary krater. Greek, Attic, Geometric, ca. 725 B.C. Atributed to the Trachones Workshop.

One of the two waterfalls at National September 11 Memorial, World Trade Center, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Floating Lanterns at dusk in Ala Moana Beach during Memorial Day celebration, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

Floating Lanterns at dusk in Ala Moana Beach during Memorial Day celebration, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

A dead body (corpse) is just arrived in the mortuary chamber in an hospital.

Medication side effect

A dead body (corpse) is just arrived in the mortuary chamber in an hospital.

A dead body (corpse) is just arrived in the mortuary chamber in an hospital.

The nurses of the death chamber takes the man who just passed away in the room of meditation.

Photographs of deceased mountaineers, Inside Messner Mountain Museum Firmian, MMM, Sigmundskron Castle, Reinhold Messner, Bolzano, South Tyrol, Italy

View of the lighthouse - memorial to the deceased sailors in Murmansk, Russia

View of the lighthouse - memorial to the deceased sailors in Murmansk, Russia

Shaving head and beard is part of the ritual to bid farewell to the soul of a deceased person, at the ghats of Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India, Asia

Fish carcasses in lake during drought, Dinero, Lake Corpus Christi, South Texas, USA

Sunrise over Lake Pamamaroo, Kinchega National Park, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania

Dead trees in front of Ayers Rock, Uluru National Park, Northern Territory, Australia, Oceania

Grave of Elias Mauromichalis, 1800-1836, Greek officer, adjutant of King Otto of Greece, Alter Suedfriedhof, old cemetery in Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Stone bust on the grave of Arnold Ritter von Zenetti, 1824-1891, chief municipal building officer, Alter Suedfriedhof, old cemetery in Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Sunset over Lake Menindee, Kinchega National Park, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania

Grave of Johann Georg von Dillis, 1759-1841, landscape painter, landscapist, Alter Suedfriedhof, old cemetery in Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Grave of Johann Friedrich Ritter von Gaertner, 1792-1847, director of the Art Academy, Alter Suedfriedhof, old cemetery in Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Grave of Dr. phil. Thaddaeus Siber, 1774-1854, mathematician, Alter Suedfriedhof, old cemetery in Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Forest damaged by bark beetles and a storm, Lusen, Bayerischer Wald (Bavarian Forest), Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Grave of Richard Jakob August von Voit, 1801-1870, architect, Alter Suedfriedhof, old cemetery in Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Stone bust on the grave of Arnold Ritter von Zenetti, 1824-1891, chief municipal building officer, Alter Suedfriedhof, old cemetery in Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Ossuary or charnel house, St. Michael's Church, Schwaebisch Hall, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany

Burl wood, faded, weathered and cracked, Yukon Territory, Canada

Grave sites on the cemetery of Altea, Costa Blanca, Spain, religion

Grave sites on the cemetery of Altea, Costa Blanca, Spain, religion

Fungus on a dead spruce infested by bark beetles on Mt Lusen in the Bavarian Forest National Park near Spiegelau, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Mummies, catacombs of the Capuchins, Capuchin crypt in Palermo, Sicily, Italy, Europe

Tree on a small island, autumn mood at the Five Colour Lake in which dead trees are lying, Jiuzhaigou Valley, Jiuzhaigou National Park, Sichuan, China, Asia

Autumn mood and reflections of trees at the turquoise Five Colour Lake in which dead trees are lying, Jiuzhaigou Valley, Jiuzhaigou National Park, Sichuan, China, Asia

Autumn mood and reflections of trees at the turquoise Five Colour Lake in which dead trees are lying, Jiuzhaigou Valley, Jiuzhaigou National Park, Sichuan, China, Asia

Autumn mood and reflections of trees at the turquoise Five Colour Lake in which dead trees are lying, Jiuzhaigou Valley, Jiuzhaigou National Park, Sichuan, China, Asia

Mary and Jesus figure in wood, St.-Elisabeth-Kirche church, Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Men of the ethnic group of the Bamileke with traditional masks, Dance of Death in honor of a deceased person, Badenkop, West Region, Cameroon, Africa

Stone bust on the grave of Dr. Justus Freiherr von Liebig, 1803-1873, chemist, Alter Suedfriedhof, old cemetery in Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Grave of Josef Hoechl, 1777-1838, municipal architect, Alter Suedfriedhof, old cemetery in Munich, Bavaria, Germany

St. Laurentii church and so-called talking tombstones that tell the life story of the deceased, Suederende on the North Sea island of Fohr, North Frisian Islands, Schleswig Holstein, northern Germany, Europe

Sunset over Lake Menindee, Kinchega National Park, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania

Mass graves in Ploetzensee, partly unknown dead from the last months of the second world war, Berlin, Germany, Europe

Orange Mound Road, Upper Terraces, limestone sinter terraces, geysers, hot springs, colorful thermophilic bacteria, microorganisms, dead trees, Mammoth Hot Springs Terraces in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, America

Forest damaged by bark beetles, Lusen, Bayerischer Wald (Bavarian Forest), Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Orange Mound Terrace, Upper Terraces, limestone sinter terraces, geysers, hot springs, colorful thermophilic bacteria, microorganisms, dead trees, Mammoth Hot Springs Terraces, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United States of America, USA

Mummy, catacombs of the Capuchins, Capuchin crypt in Palermo, Sicily, Italy, Europe

Inland lake with dead trees, Arugam Bay, Sri Lanka, South Asia

Men of the ethnic group of the Bamileke with traditional masks, Dance of Death in honor of a deceased person, Badenkop, West Region, Cameroon, Africa

American Bison (Bison bison), Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA

Autumn mood at the Five-Color Pond in which dead trees are lying, and seaweed and sea grass is growing, Jiuzhaiguo Valley, Jiuzhaiguo National Park, Sichuan, China, Asiaan, China, Asia

Mural painting with a picture of the deceased president Hafiz al-Assad, Hama, Syria, Middle East, Orient

Mummies, catacombs of the Capuchins, Capuchin crypt in Palermo, Sicily, Italy, Europe

Men of the ethnic group of the Bamileke with traditional masks, Dance of Death in honor of a deceased person, Badenkop, West Region, Cameroon, Africa

Men of the ethnic group of the Bamileke with traditional masks, Dance of Death in honor of a deceased person, Badenkop, West Region, Cameroon, Africa

Skeletal tree at Mount Hood volcano, Cascade Range, Oregon, USA