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Order of the Good Death — “The way our society handles death and dying is broken in many ways.”
Wikipedia: Chinese ghost marriage — “It was believed that if a person had died unmarried, their spirit would feel lonely in the afterlife. As these spirits are unable to find harmony, they would return to cause harm to living family members and their descendants. Due to this belief, living family members would seek out deceased individuals of the opposite sex to accompany the deceased during burial.”
Neonaut's Cyber Mauseoleums, a little page about the online interactions that remain after one dies.

Making the Dead Beautiful: Mummies as Art — “Perhaps the most interesting aspect of Chinchorro mortuary practice was the democracy with which it was carried out. In contrast to the Egyptians, who mummified kings and nobility, the Chinchorro show no discrimination in age, sex, or social status in the mummification of their dead. The mummification of children is particularly fascinating, since in cultures throughout the world they receive little if any mortuary attention, especially those who never lived--the stillborn. The Chinchorro seemed to honor all human beings whether they contributed to society or not, paying particular attention to those who never achieved their potential.”
Meet the Fantastically Bejeweled Skeletons of Catholicism’s Forgotten Martyrs — Financial incentive, cultural shift, outsider art.
TOTENINSEL. For over 30 years, painter Pascal Lecocq has collected documents pertaining to Arnold Bocklin's Isles of the Dead.
The Dance of Death, a site devoted to the popular artistic motif of the late middle-ages.
UMMA: Death Personified — Shadow scattershot.
Wikipedia: Personifications of death — Sometimes I enjoy musing over to what extent anthropomorphising death is a cultural universal.
Wikipedia: Funerary art — Universal resonance. Maybe what I want is to be a funerary artist.