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When the death occurs in the urban environment, there is a series of facilities that expedite the handling of the deceased. In that regard, undertakers are and have been in charge of preparing the corpse to be viewed and to prepare and facilitate the space (funeral parlour) where the family will receive relatives and friends. The aim is to facilitate the difficult time affecting the family and turn the death into something rational and aseptically controlled.
Compared to those “standardised" “standardised” procedures, when the death takes place in rural areas, the behaviour is more traditional and attitudes are perpetuated, to a great extent, that are more inherent to a pre-industrial society, which is what we have first and foremost recorded through the surveys and bibliography.
== Death and act of closing the eyelids ==
=== Death indulgences ===
In the Southern Basque Country, the death indulgences“death indulgences”, which could be bought in all the parishes along with the Bull of the Crusade, were of great religious importance in the past<ref>The Bull of the Crusade was a papal bull granted to the Kingdom of Spain in the 16th century. It was proclaimed annually in the parishes and was bought by means of alms given in proportion to income. The holder was the beneficiary of different graces and favours. These included being exempted from the general law of fasting and absence and the application of a plenary indulgence in case of death. The latter was known popularly as the “death indulgence”.</ref>. The Church thus granted a plenary indulgence for the soul of the decease for whom one was sought. The person seeking the indulgence had to confess and commune within eight days.
In Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa, the family of the deceased generally collected the indulgence forms (summaries) from the parish and placed them on a table in the funeral room. The people who visited, if they wanted to, took one and placed it on the coffin and left the relevant amount of money on the tray that was then given to the church. In Navarre, the family bought the death indulgences from the parish office and gave them directly to the people in charge of closing the coffin to place them in it.
