crematorium
Final fire facility
A crematorium is a facility where dead bodies are burned to ashes.
The term applies to both the building housing the operation and the furnace itself.
Crematoriums serve as alternatives to burial, reducing remains to bone fragments that families can keep, scatter, or inter: The funeral home arranged transport to the crematorium.
Burned matter's residue
- cremainsIncinerated bodily remains
- urnDecorative container for ashes
- ossuaryReceptacle for skeletal remains
- columbariumStructure housing cremated remains
scattering · memorial jewelry · interment · repatriation · certificate · identification tag · container · disposition
Facility housing corpses
- funeral homeFacility for death services
- chapelSmall worship room
- columbariumStructure housing cremated remains
- mausoleumMonumental building for interment
crematory · furnace · retort · viewing room · preparation room · reception area · memorial garden
Burning waste to ash
- combustionExothermic reaction with oxygen
- reductionMaking something smaller
- pulverizationCrushing into fine particles
- processingSystematic operation on data
cooling · collection · identification · witnessing · charging · retorting · cremains · ashes
Formal event marking occasions
- memorial serviceEvent honoring the deceased
- committalAct of entrusting custody
- viewingAct of watching something
- vigilPurposeful nighttime wakefulness
eulogy · prayers · music · readings · celebration of life · final farewell · religious rites · incense
Intense sorrow from loss
- bereavementState following loss
- lossBeing without something
- sorrowDeep emotional distress
- condolencesExpressions of grief support
remembrance · sympathy · consolation · farewell · closure · tribute · honor · memory
ashes
Burned matter's residue
- cremainsIncinerated bodily remains
- urnDecorative container for ashes
- ossuaryReceptacle for skeletal remains
columbarium · scattering · memorial jewelry · interment · repatriation · certificate · identification tag · container · disposition
mortuary
Facility housing corpses
- funeral homeFacility for death services
- chapelSmall worship room
- columbariumStructure housing cremated remains
mausoleum · crematory · furnace · retort · viewing room · preparation room · reception area · memorial garden
incineration
Burning waste to ash
- combustionExothermic reaction with oxygen
- reductionMaking something smaller
- pulverizationCrushing into fine particles
processing · cooling · collection · identification · witnessing · charging · retorting · cremains · ashes · bone fragments
ceremony
Formal event marking occasions
- memorial serviceEvent honoring the deceased
- committalAct of entrusting custody
- viewingAct of watching something
vigil · eulogy · prayers · music · readings · celebration of life · final farewell · religious rites · incense · chanting
grief
Intense sorrow from loss
- bereavementState following loss
- lossBeing without something
- sorrowDeep emotional distress
condolences · remembrance · sympathy · consolation · farewell · closure · tribute · honor · memory · loved one
- fireflame, blaze, flames, inferno, embers
- funeralsfuneral, burial, casket, coffin, funeral homes
- mortalitydeath, death knell, deceased, death rate, death acceptance
- funeralfuneral, burial, funeral home, funeral director, casket
- HolocaustHolocaust, Auschwitz, concentration camps, Holocaust survivors, gas chambers
- cremationcrematory, ashes, retort, pyre, incineration