Any death ruptures both the family and the community, and must be ritually managed to ensure the well-being of the survivors as well as the deceased (since the need for these rituals seems to contradict the idea of karma, one could argue that they are primarily for the survivors).  The first is to cremate the body, usually on the day of death, to ensure that the spirit will move on.  This photo shows  Manikarnika Ghat, the main cremation place in Benares, and at bottom of the steps lies is a corpse wrapped in a pinkish sari (revealing that the deceased was a married woman).  In most places the cremation ground is outside  the town, but here it is in the city center, teaching the lesson that death cannot be ignored or denied, and this that one should live purposefully. 

Family and close friends carry the body to the cremation place, accompanied by others to show love and support.  A pyre is built for the body, often (as here) at the water's edge.  The chief mourner (usually the oldest son), circles the pyre with a burning torch, and then ignites it.  More wood (visible in the foreground) may be added as necessary.

When the fire has cooled the chief mourner collects some of the remains for the final funerary rite.  This is asthi-visarjana, in which the ash and bone from a cremation pyre are immersed in a sacred river, often the Ganges.  The orange bag around his neck holds these fragments, as well as "advertising" hist purpose to those around him.  Haridwar is a major center for this rite, and many families have been doing it here for generations.  In earlier times people might delay this rite for years, until they were able to travel to a pilgrimage site, but the advent of better transportation (trains, buses, and cars) has made it more common to be done within a few days of the death. 

Here's a a family performing the actual rite (they are at left, which is south, the direction traditionally associated with death) and the priests on the right.  The white cloth containing the remains is visible in the center.  The charter myth for the Ganges is closely connected with the notion of bringing peace to the dead, so it is hardly surprising that it is an important place for this ritual.  

The final death rites are memorial rites for the dead known as sraddhas, some performed in the days immediately after death, others at regular (often annual) intervals, and still others performed on special occasions. Among this last group are the sraddhas performed as part of the regular rituals at pilgrimage places, in this case Gangotri in the Himalayas. The man with the white hat is the performer (in memory of his deceased father and earlier ancestors); the man in the dark coat is his pilgrimage priest.