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Reagan, Maggie. "Death and Burial across Cultures." Book Links, vol. 25, no. 3, Jan. 2016, pp. 13-17. EBSCOhost, ezproxy.gsu.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lfh&AN=112080005&site=eds-live.

In the article “Death and Burial across Cultures”, Reagan compares various ways of dealing with death and various modes of burial across the world. From the ancient Greeks, to the Tibetan Buddhists, Egyptians, and Mexican Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos). By providing a brief history of each group given and explaining their customs; Reagan describes the different forms of preserving the body for example mummifying that some cultures went through to ensure the bodies stayed intact, for some cultures believed their ancestors would later need their bodies again in another life. Reagan gives a number of other texts and provides explanations of the books and their relevance to the topic of death in different cultures.

This article would also be a very important aspect to my research of different perspectives of death by culture customs because not only did the author explain and compare several different beliefs and practices but Reagan provided other resources to continue my research.