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In the article Betwixt and Between, Turner explores the thought that what is unclear and contradictory tends to be regarded as unclean. So, in effect that which is unclear is unclean. The Toradja might argue that death is a prime example of this idea. For that reason, precautions are taken such as removing the corpse through an unconventional doorway or window to prevent the pollution of other exits. The death rites are performed so that eventually the liminal state will end and cleanliness and normalcy will return to the community. The liminality actually ends after a series of prayers, mourning, and the final song and dance takes place. At this point the deceased becomes a member of the underworld and is viewed as a memory in the community instead of a functioning member of it. In passages such as death, the reintegration process takes place not with the person who died, but with the members of the public effected by the loss. .
The passage of a person through death is also associated with other concepts that Turner addresses. For example, at one point Turner addresses a negative characteristic associated with those going through the transition, in this case the deceased person. He states that transitional beings have nothing. This term would include the loss of all status, property, rank, and kinship position. One example of this deficiency of all possessions in the final stage, is the Hindu view of the final samskara (rite of passage). .
After death, the deceased is readied to be brought to burial or burning grounds without any emphasis on worldly possessions or status. A Hindu death is viewed as the end of the life body and the beginning of a new life in the afterlife. For that reason, it is unnecessary for any worldly ideals or objects to accompany the soul through this liminal journey. One may contend that this loss of all worldly recognition may in fact be one thing that separates the dead from the living and places the departed into the liminal phase.