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Quote: There are three deaths: the first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.
Memento Mori Mors Vincit Omnia.
Dr. Klicker, A Funeral Director's Prayer
Our father, grant me the knowledge to wisely counsel the grieving people I serve.
Grant me the skill to professionally care for their loved ones who have died.
Grant me the sensitivity and awareness to understand the depth of their pain and sorrow.
Grant me the strength to care, without my heart breaking, so I can be of help.
And yes God, grant me a sense of humor, so at the appropriate time and in a sensitive way, I can give these mourners a moment's rest.
Amen
"Watchers" or "Watch-Women" (sometimes also referred to with the more generic term “nurse”) tended to the dying. These women often were friends, family members, or hired help.
The final and most important job of a Watcher was to verify that her charge was dead, observing the cessation of breath and even shaking the body to be sure no life remained.
Once the Watcher’s work was done, “Layers Out of the Dead” were women who would wash, dress, and groom the body of the deceased.
They would also close the mouth of the deceased, using a tied cloth or a stick propped between the chin and breastbone, and use coins or other objects to keep the eyes closed.
Layers Out would also perform the skilled jobs that would later fall to undertakers, such as removing internal organs, blocking orifices, and slowing putrefaction by applying alum-covered cloth or filling body cavities with charcoal.
Gods and Goddesses associated with death:
Greek:
Hades: God of Death
Achlys: Goddess who symbolizes the mist of death. Goddess of poisons, personification of misery and sadness.
Atropos: one of the moirai, who cut the thread of life.
Charon: a daimon who acted as ferryman of the dead.
Erebus: the primordial god of darkness, his mists encircled the underworld and filled the hollows of the earth
Keres: Goddesses of violent death
Limos: Goddess of starvation
Thanatos: Personification of death
Gods of the seven rivers of the underworld:
Acheron: god of the river Acheron
Alpheus: god of the river Alpheus
Cocytus: god of the river Cocytus
Eridanos: god of the river Eridanos
Lethe: goddess of the river Lethe
Phlegethon: god of the river Phlegethon
Styx: goddess of the river Styx, a river that formed a boundary between the living and the dead
Roman:
Pluto: God of Death
Dea Tacita: Goddess of the dead
Di inferi: ancient Roman deities associated with death and the Underworld
Dis Pater: God of the underworld
Laverna: Goddess of thieves, cheats, and the underworld
Lemures: the malevolent dead
Libitina: goddess of funerals and burials
Mania: goddess of death
Mors: personification of death
Norse
Hel: Norse Goddess of Death
Freyja: (presides over Fólkvangr) Norse Goddess chooses half of those who die in battle
Odin: Norse God who presides over Valhalla and gets half of those who die in battle; there they train for Ragnarok
Hindu-Vedic:
Kali: God of Death
Mara: Goddess of death
Chitragupta: God of justice after death
Yama, god of death and ruler of the afterlife
Dhumavati: Goddess of death, misfortune and temporality
Shiva: God of destruction, time, and the arts
Persian-Zoroastrian:
Asto Vidatu or Astiwihad or Asto-widhatu: death deity
Uralic:
Kalma: Finnish goddess of death and decay, her name meaning "the stench of corpses"
Ossetian:
Aminon: Gatekeeper of the underworld.
Barastyr: Ruler of the underworld.
Ishtar-Deela: Lord of the underworld
Egyptian:
Osiris: Lord of the Underworld
Apophis: Egyptian Death God
Anubis: Egyptian God of the Underworld
Aztec:
Mictlantecuhtli: Aztec God of Death
Coatlicue: Aztec minor goddess of death, as well as the goddess of life and rebirth
Mictecacihuatl: Aztec chief death goddess; Lady of the Dead
Mictlantecuhtli: Aztec chief death god; lord of the Underworld
Tlaloc: Aztec water god and minor death god; ruler of Tlalocan, a separate underworld for those who died from drowning
Xipe Totec: Aztec hero god, death god; inventor of warfare and master of plagues
Xolotl: Aztec god of sunset, fire, lightning, and death
Etruscan:
Aita: God of the underworld
Februus: God of purification, death, the underworld, and riches
Mania: Goddess of the dead
Mantus: God of the underworld
Orcus: God of the underworld
Mayan:
Camazotz: Bat god who resides in the underworld
Mayan death gods known under various names: Hunhau, Uacmitun Ahau, Ah Puch, Kisin, Yum Kimil
Ah Puch: Mayan God of Death
MISC:
The Shinigami: Japanese Death Gods
Maman Brigette: Haitian and Voodoo Death God
Scáthach: Celtic Goddess of the dead
El Tío: lord of the underworld, in Cerro Rico, Bolivia
Santa Muerte: folk saint and goddess of death in Mexico
San La Muerte: folk saint and god of death in Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil
San Pascualito: folk saint and god of death in Guatemala and Mexico
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