death anniversary
Yearly mourning occasion
A death anniversary is the annual date marking when someone died, observed in remembrance.
Many cultures hold ceremonies, prayers, or family gatherings on this day: We light candles on my grandmother's death anniversary.
In some traditions, the first death anniversary carries special significance.
- memorial serviceEvent honoring the deceased
- yahrzeitAnnual death anniversary observance
- ancestral spiritsSouls of deceased kin
- mourningPeriod following loss
- passing awayEuphemism for dying
grave · Día de los Muertos · grief · All Souls' Day · bereavement · remembrance · candle lighting · incense · lunar calendar · urn · grave visit · wreath laying · paying respects · altar · Samhain · flowers · wreath · prayer
- funeral customsburial, funeral, cremation, funeral procession, casket
- anniversariescentennial, bicentennial, sesquicentennial, semicentennial, decennial
- commemorationscommemoration, remembrance, memorial service, centennial, bicentennial
- Sufismtariqa, fana, sufi, Sufism, dervish
- Japanese Memorialsmemorial tablets, ancestor veneration, grave visits, memorial services, cemetery visits
- Jewish mourningshiva, shivah, yahrzeit, sitting shiva, mourning
death anniversarybirthday
Annual date of origin
birthdate · date of birth · christening · baptism · naming day
death anniversarybirthday
Annual date of origin
date of birth · birth date · name day · baby shower · birth celebration