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Death and Afterlife beliefs
General
Encyclopedia of Afterlife Beliefs
More Afterlife Beliefs
ReligionFacts.com
Cults about the Afterlife
Cum Grano Salis -- Telegrams to the Dead
Cum Grano Salis -- Animals and the Afterlife
Afterlife Jokes

Buddhist
Anatta and Four Noble Truths
Anatta and Soul-lessness
Anatta: Not -Self
Buddhist Afterlife
Buddha's words on Not-self
Process and Emptiness
Origins of Buddhism
Buddhist Afterlife Beliefs

Christian
Christian Afterlife Beliefs (general)
Beliefs of Specific Christian Groups

Etruscan
Etruscan (General) Art
Etruscan (Funerary) Art
Etruscan Tombs
Etruscan Funerary Symbolism
More Etruscan Funerary Art

Egyptian
Safe, speedy, comfortable trip to the afterlife
Mummification and the Afterlife
Egyptian Afterlife -- National Geographic
Mapping the Afterlife
Social History and Death --about.com links
Life after Death
Death in Ancient Egypt -- Oriental Institute, U. of Chicago
Die Like an Egyptian
What Egyptians Took to the Afterlife
Mummies of Ancient egypt
The "ka", the "ba", the "akh", and the body embalmed
The Egyptian Book of the Dead -- Papyrus of Ani
The Major Egyptian Books of the Underworld
Reu nu pert em hru = The Chapters of coming forth by day
Papyrus of Ani -- E. A. Wallis Budge Explanation and Translation [1895]

Grecco-Roman
Much of Roman Religion was derived from the Etruscans, but the Roman preferred to seek Greek roots.  Roman origin myths, on the other hand, said that they sprung from Aeneas, A Trojan.  Roman death and afterlife beliefs also had Etruscan roots, but they assiduously altered them to mimic Greek belief structures.
Scipio's Dream (as recounted by Cicero)
Death and the Romans (scroll down)
Death and Burial...informative book review
Etrusco-Roman Gods Concordance
Roman Funeral
Feast of the Lemures
Burial Places and Funeral Ceremonies
Apotheosis
Funus -- Roman Funeral
Lares -- Ancestral Spirits
Lares 2 -- More Ancestral Spirits
Larvae -- Malignant Ancestral Spirits
Cerberus
Pluto and Persephone
Roman Funerals
River Styx
Goddess Styx
Styx and Hades -- Trip to the other side
Lemurs and Lemures -- Smithsonian/National Zoo
Pliny the Younger on Ghosts

Hindu
Hindu Death Rite Guide -- FAQ:  how to send off a Hindu
Life After Death
Hinduism and Afterlife
Hindu Afterlife
Death and Dying
Pretas

Jain/Sikh
Nine Tattvas (Principles)
Nirvana vs. Moksha
Short introduction to Jainism
AboutSikhs.com -- scroll down to "Path of liberation"

Jewish
"In Seventh Heaven"
Gan Eden
Afterlife -- Jewish Virtual Library
Hell...Heaven
Do Jews believe in and afterlife?
Hellenism and Jewish Afterlife
Jewish Afterlife Beliefs
"What happens of we die?  -- WUJS
Four Traditional Stories
Olam Ha-Ba -- the Afterlife
Foreign Influences
Reincarnation and Jewish Tradition
When the Dead Rise

Mithraic
Mithraism was the main competition of Christianity in the Roman period before Constantine.
The Egyptian Cult of Isis was a distant third.
Almost everyone had abandoned the old Roman "pagan" beliefs by that time.
Mithraic Afterlife Beliefs
Mithraism and Christianity
Mithraism links
Mithraism -- Ecole Initiative

Muslim
Legitimacy of Matyrdom
Al-Akhira -- Life after this world
Dying and Death
Islamic view of the Afterlife
Man in the Intermediate Realm
Middle East And Afterlife
Near-Death Experiences of Muslims
Muslim Afterlife Derived from Christian Belief
Resurrection Judgement and The Hereafter
Suicide Forbidden
Afterlife in Islam

Tibetan
Bardo Teachings - The Intermediate States
Death, Peace, Environment -- Dalai Lama's Answer
First Bardo: The Period of Ego-Loss or Non-Game Ecstasy
Second Bardo: The Period of Hallucinations
Third Bardo: The Period of Re-entry
Bardo States
Tibetan Book of the Dead -- UVA

Zoroastrian
This belief structure is often considered to be a prominent precursur of Judaism and Christianity
Messiah and Last Judgment
Heaven and Hell
Zarathushtrian's Perspective -- Life, Afterlife
Zarathushtra's teachings about reincarnation
Cinvat Bridge and the Roads to Heaven an Hell