condolence book
Grief signature collection
A condolence book is a book or registry where people write messages of sympathy following someone's death.
Traditionally placed at funeral homes or memorial services, condolence books now often appear online: The embassy opened a condolence book for victims of the attack.
The collected messages offer comfort to the bereaved and preserve a record of those who paid respects.
- sympathyCompassionate understanding of others
- deepest sympathyProfound shared sorrow
- griefIntense sorrow from loss
- mourningPeriod following loss
- funeralService honoring the dead
funeral home · memorial · lying in state · signatures · guestbook · bereavement · loss · tribute · in loving memory · remembrance · flowers · black ribbon · chapel · wake · visitation · handwritten · handwritten note · pages
- mourningfuneral, burial, grief, bereavement, wake
- funeral itemscasket, cremation urn, shroud, funeral program, gravestone
- memorialsmemorial, memorial service, memorial statue, memorials, war memorial
- photo albumsphoto albums, photo album, family albums, family album, scrapbooks
- death recordsdeath certificate, death record, death certificates, vital records, death notice
- elegieselegies, lament, laments, dirges, death poem