Natural burials are interments where a body is buried without embalming fluids or coffins. These burial grounds ideal locations for retrospective multispectral analysis of non-conventional single as the age and location each grave documented. The detection disturbed soil under influence human decomposition has been well-studied, but lacks temporal component needed characterising simulated cland...

This study used short-term dance/movement therapy to examine children who were at high risk for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following the 9/21/99 earthquake in Taiwan. Fifteen elementaryschool age children (grades one through five) who were at high risk for PTSD participated in a two-day “Happy Growth” dance/movement therapy program. This program was designed by a team consisting of o...

This article investigates emic accounts of the AIDS deaths that have occurred in a village in the Bushbuckridge district of the South African lowveld. I argue that whilst AIDS was publicly hidden and shrouded in secrecy, private gossip created moral scripts about those suspected of having died of AIDS. Details of 47 AIDS deaths revealed that young women and relatively wealthy, sometimes powerfu...

In Indonesia, the death customs of different ethnic group have characteristics, and habits. Some are buried in a special area, burned (Ngaben - Balinese) other methods. every province Indonesia there one or two Chinese funeral home services that provide mourning to families, start from bathing, makeup, providing coffins, preparing funerals cremations, they also give for traditional ceremonies, ...

The novel Zinky Boys (1989; Polish editions in 2007 and 2015) by Belarusian author Svetlana Alexievich is more than just a story of the Soviet military intervention Afghanistan (1979–1989) told from perspective soldiers who participated it. It also confronts readers with contractual nature line that separates “artistic” “documentary” prose probes complexities discourse on memory Russian culture...

The huge number of fatalities due to the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic has imposed an unprecedented pressure on existing burial facilities. Thus, mass is being used in different parts world cope with this unusual situation. As a dead body might be contagious for at least hours, if not days, there need manage/design/construct considering safe handling coffins and other environmental, social,...