Can paper money be burned after a person dies?

No, when a person dies, there is only the soul left, and burning paper money or whatever is just a way to honor the departed.

Whenever there is a Ching Ming Festival, or some other anniversary of the dead, people always burn paper money for their dead relatives. People believe that the paper money is the money in the other world of the dead, burn more paper money, the dead will have money in that world. It is actually a kind of mourning for the dead.

China's Southern Qi Dynasty when the ghosts and gods and funerals and graves used for the dead to enjoy one of the "plutonium". Also known as meditation money. Generally white paper cut into the shape of copper coins, then or thrown in the field cemetery, or incineration to the dead, the folk generally known as the spreading of paper, burned paper, and so on. Qi of the Southern Dynasties, people generally changed to paper money offering. This custom has been practiced to this day. The first seven days after a person's death, he returns home to visit his family. From the Tibetan Sutra of the Dead (also known as the Bardo Sutra).

It should be noted here that burial and burning are two different concepts. Paper money may not be used to burn at the beginning of the creation, burial, throwing, hanging and other ways may be earlier than burning, but because the image of paper money into smoke when burned to make people imagine entering the underworld, so burning immediately became the most commonly used way to deal with paper money. In this view, the burning of paper money from the legend of the upper limit of time, theoretically can be traced back to the same era of the creation of paper money --- Wei Jin. And in the western region of the old site of the Gaochang Kingdom and other Buddhist countries have unearthed medieval coins.