burial practices
Death ritual traditions
Burial practices are the customs and rituals surrounding the disposal of the dead.
These vary widely across cultures and include interment in the ground, cremation, entombment, and sky burial.
The term encompasses not just the physical handling of remains but associated ceremonies, mourning periods, and beliefs about the afterlife: Different religions have different burial practices.
- sarcophagiDecorated stone burial chests
- graveSerious and worrying
- six feet underDead and buried
- tombUnderground chamber for remains
- alkaline hydrolysisBase-catalyzed molecular breakdown
funeral rites · last rites · embalming fluid · cenotaphs · ossuary · shroud · ancestor worship · epitaphs · eternal flame · grave goods · crypt · green burials · mourning rituals · mausoleum · columbarium · dust to dust · urn · catacombs
- Mesoamerican civilizationAztec Empire, human sacrifice, jaguar warriors, priesthood, temple complexes
- religious issueschurch and state, religious freedoms, religious tolerance, religious exemptions, interfaith
- prehistorystone tools, Neolithic, Stone Age, caveman, cavemen
- folk traditionsfolk songs, folk dance, folk dances, folk tunes, folklore
- anthropologyanthropology, fieldwork, ethnography, social anthropology, cultural anthropology
- archaeologyexcavation, dig site, archaeologist, dig, archaeological digs
burial practicescremation
Burning the deceased
sky burial · sea burial · cryonics · mummification · incineration