body preparation
Readying the deceased
Body preparation is the process of readying a corpse for burial, cremation, or viewing.
This typically includes washing, embalming, cosmetic restoration, dressing, and positioning the body.
Funeral professionals handle body preparation, though some families choose to prepare their own deceased: The mortician completed the body preparation before the wake.
- embalmingPreserving dead bodies chemically
- mortuaryFacility housing corpses
- funeral homeFacility for death services
- funeralService honoring the dead
- corpseDeceased human body
preservation · cadaver · autopsy · cosmetics · casket · open casket · closed casket · viewing · morgue · formaldehyde · deceased · rest in peace · undertaker · laying out · shroud · burial · dressing · makeup
- funeralsfuneral, burial, cremation, casket, coffin
- death carefuneral, burial, cremation, casket, coffin
- cremationcrematorium, crematory, ashes, retort, pyre
- death ritesfuneral, cremation, burial, natural burial, sea burial
- funeral homecasket, caskets, coffin, coffins, embalmer
- Islamic funeralsburial, shroud, funeral prayer, ritual washing, shrouding
body preparationcremation
Burning the deceased
incineration · alkaline hydrolysis · direct cremation · human composting · body donation
body preparationgreen burial
Environmentally gentle funeral method
natural burial · sky burial · non-intervention · direct burial · home funeral
body preparationend-of-life care
Care for the dying
palliative care · hospice care · medical treatment · life preservation · healthcare
body, bodies, bodily, bodied, bodywork, somebody, anybody, nobody, everybody