Chapter II deals with arrangements involving the public viewing and burial of the deceased Pope and matters after his death.

This would involve burial at a depth between 200 - 1000m deep in a purpose-built facility with no intention to retrieve the waste in the future.

He drew analogies between his own practice of hypnotism and various forms of Hindu yoga meditation and other ancient spiritual practices, especially those involving voluntary burial and apparent human hibernation.

As archaeologist Sarah Semple noted, "the rituals [of the early Anglo-Saxons] involved the full pre-Christian repertoire: votive deposits, furnished burial, monumental mounds, sacred natural phenomenon and eventually constructed pillars, shrines and temples", thereby having many commonalities with other pre-Christian religions in Europe.

Typically, such burials involved the sacrifice and burial of one or more horses to accompany the remains of high-ranked members or warriors.

The occasions involving cremation were more ritualised than those involving burial.

These graves and their contents had been studied long before computers became commonplace, and gave indications of two different burial rites: one involving burial with pig bones and metal goods but no pottery, and the other involving sheep bones and pottery.

The Morning Glory Funeral Home scandal took place at the Howell Morning Glory Chapel in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1988, and involved improper disposal and burial of bodies by the funeral home's owner, Lewis J. Howell.

Funerary rites involved ceremony and quick burial after death, followed by four days and nights of vigil.

The process involved burial of excrements (human or animal) in the fields prepared for that purpose beside the nitraries, watering them and waiting until the leaching process did its job, after a certain time, operators gathered the saltpetre that "came out" to the ground surface by efflorescence.