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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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