Vulnerary, pulmonary, for jaundice, colic, sprains, and bruises, itchings, smallpox, coughs, madness. People unfold their hands when dying. Besides this, the feathers of certain birds are harmful and disturb the dying and there is a chance that some of these may be in the pillow. Coins are places on the eyes to keep them closed. It was a custom often to receive into ones own mouth the last breath of the dying.
Some people cover the looking glasses in a room where a dead person lies.
Sometimes all the water in a house is emptied from pitchers, buckets, and such. After a death in a house, clocks are stopped, mirrors covered, bells muffles. With the invention of Death comes the invention of continuous Life. We all go somewhere else, that's all. We move on.