When somebody in the community became seriously ill, after being cared for by the healers, the person was left alone in his/her final moments. He was left in solitude for several hours until he exhaled his last breath. Soon the body was deposited in a flexed and lateral position on a white cloth, between four beams. Later the body was set to sea in a canoe with stones so that the body returned to the marine depths. The bodies could also be deposited in some rookery or within a cavern.
Among their remedies are included the breaking of a lance over the back of the patient and squeezing the ill part of the body, then sucking and finally blowing it towards the sky.