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A closed casket is a coffin kept shut during a funeral viewing, typically because the body is too damaged or decomposed for display.
The phrase often implies violent or disfiguring death: It was a closed-casket funeral after the accident.
As a modifier, it can describe anything gruesome enough to require concealment: That was a closed-casket breakup.
- burialPlacing deceased underground
- laid to restBuried after death
- funeral homeFacility for death services
- gravesitePlace of interment
- griefIntense sorrow from loss
mourning · funeral director · afterlife · bereavement · obituary · hearse · taboo · disfigurement · eulogy · paying respects · loved ones · final goodbye · interment · pallbearer · remembrance · trauma · tragic accident · sacred rites
- funeralsfuneral, burial, cremation, coffin, funeral homes
- funeral homecoffin, coffins, embalmer, embalming, funeral director
- funeral ritesfuneral, bury, burial, funeral mass, burial rites
- Jewish mourningshiva, shivah, yahrzeit, sitting shiva, mourning
closed casketopen casket
Funeral with visible remains
viewing · lying in state · visitation · public viewing · wake
closed casketcremation
Burning the deceased
direct cremation · green burial · natural burial · body donation
closed, close, closes, closing, closer, closest, closeness, enclose, enclosed