Of the sixteen samskaras which encompass a Hindu life the last one is performed for the dead by their sons or grandsons or relatives. Many passages in the Puran

A rare treatise on the dead & what happens next as per the Hindu belief None wants to face it though all know they cannot escape. This book may help understand

Examines the subject of death and immortality in Africa, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece. Also from the point of view of the Old Testament, New Testament, Judaism, C