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Death is one of the most significant facts of human life. The perception of death varies according to people’s outlooks on life, beliefs, living conditions and their life situations they experience. Death is sorrow, but it sometimes is regarded as a salvation from torments. The history of death is developed around various concepts and ideas. In the Kyrgyz society, one of the milestones of the Turkic culture which has an important position in human’s life is curiosity; how the phenomenon of death, beliefs and concepts emerged in this context and perceived in the minds of people. Death has an important role in the culture of the Turkic speaking and Turkic descent people. In this paper the role of death in the Kyrgyz society has been emphasized where the traditional Turkic beliefs are deeply influential in the view of death as well as the Islamic precepts and practices in every area, the statements of death, the will, the law of salvation.

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