The bodies of the dead are washed and bound with cloth. Some were buried in a coffin, others on a bed of straw, hay or moss at the bottom of the grave. In church people were told that there is life after death. There they will be judged. A dead person's family would pray that the individual would get to Heaven, where good people went, and not go to Hell, where the bad people were.
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VIRGIN MARY'S DEATH. The Virgin Mary on her deathbed surrounded by 11 disciples. St. Peter is kneeling with an open book. St. John is holding her right hand. This is a part of an altarpiece from Stala Church on Orust. (GM:185)
BIBLICAL SCENE - THE LAST JUDGEMENT. People are being sent to euther Heaven or Hell. This is part of an altarpiece from Björlanda Church on Hisingen. (GM:175)
BURIAL COFFIN from the churchyard in Nya Lödöse. (GSMS:130001:1)