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Today's Topic Death helps create a culture and that in turn becomes religion

Join Michael and Jeff as the look at a simple system to develop death rituals for your fantasy worldbuilding cultures.

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• How did they die?
  • Considered natural
  • Suicide
  • Martyrdom
  • Warriors death
• What is the major cultural risk to having someone dead around?
  • Attracting dangerous animals?
  • Diseases https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_risks_from_dead_bodies
    • Miasma Theory – Diseases spread from the smell of the dead
  • The night of the living dead
  • Punishment from a god
• Mourning
  • Your loss
  • Their loss
  • What happens to them now
    • Afterlife or not?
  • Take out your dead
    • Burn her
      • Cremation
    • Bury Her
      • Grave (Together or apart)
      • Known or hidden
      • Tomb
      • Cave
      • Side of the hill
      • Freezer
    • Dump her
      • Dumped out in nature
        • Sky burial
      • 150 Rocks fired into space
      • I am not dead yet! (Cryonics)
    • Eater
  • Other factors that might change the ritual
    • Important, good or bad
    • Died in war
    • Martyrdom
      • Self or determined
    • Suicide
      • Alone or aided

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Look at the rituals involving death in your main culture

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