burial service
Gravesite farewell ceremony
A burial service is a ceremony accompanying the interment of a dead person, typically involving religious rites, eulogies, and formal rituals conducted at a gravesite or funeral home.
The term covers both the religious observance and the practical arrangements: The burial service was held at the family plot.
Distinguished from memorial services, which may occur without a body present.
- grave goodsItems interred with corpses
- cemeteryPlace for interring remains
- six feet underDead and buried
- funeral ritesCustoms for honoring deceased
- wakePath left in water
eulogy · mourning · pallbearer · grief · coffin · interment · prayer · obituary · open casket · cenotaph · procession · clergy · ancestor worship · tombstone · hymn · remembrance · hearse · urn
- Anglican liturgymorning prayer, evening prayer, litany, collects, psalter
- funeralsfuneral, cremation, casket, coffin, funeral homes
- liturgyDivine Office, missal, lectionary, rite, Tridentine Mass
burial servicechristening
Ceremony naming a child
baptism · birth celebration · baby shower · bris · naming ceremony
burial servicecremation ceremony
Ritual burning of remains
sky burial · sea burial · green burial · natural burial · mummification
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