decease
Life's permanent end
Decease is a formal or legal term for death.
It appears most often in official contexts—death certificates, wills, legal documents—where the deceased refers to the person who has died.
As a verb, to decease means to die, though this usage is rare outside legal language: If the policyholder deceases before the term ends.
Moving by or temporary
- departedHaving left
- lossBeing without something
- restCessation of activity
- peaceFreedom from disturbance
sleep · gone · crossed over · no longer with us · laid to rest · late · demise · expiration
Intense sorrow from loss
- bereavementState following loss
- sorrowDeep emotional distress
- lamentationPassionate expression of grief
- mourningPeriod following loss
condolence · consolation · memorial · tribute · remembrance · heartache · anguish · widowed
Service honoring the dead
- obituaryNotice of someone's passing
- mortuaryFacility housing corpses
- eulogyTribute for the dead
- coronerPublic death investigator
autopsy · interment · cremation · burial · embalm · cadaver · mortician · pallbearer
passing
Moving by or temporary
peace · sleep · gone · crossed over · no longer with us · laid to rest · late · demise · expiration · end
grief
Intense sorrow from loss
- bereavementState following loss
- sorrowDeep emotional distress
- lamentationPassionate expression of grief
mourning · condolence · consolation · memorial · tribute · remembrance · heartache · anguish · widowed · orphaned
funeral
Service honoring the dead
coroner · autopsy · interment · cremation · burial · embalm · cadaver · mortician · pallbearer · tombstone
inheritance
Property received from ancestors
- willFaculty of deliberate choice
- estateProperty and grounds
- beneficiaryDesignated asset receiver
testament · probate · heir · bequest · succession · endowment · trust · executor · intestate · patrimony
soul
Innermost animating essence
- heavenSky or bliss
- eternityBoundless temporal existence
- immortalityExemption from death
afterlife · spirit · beyond · hereafter · repose · paradise · purgatory · nirvana · ancestors · reincarnation
- mortalitymortality, mortality rates, dying, deaths, demise
- departuresleave, depart, exit, leaving, go
- oblivionoblivion, nothingness, nonexistence, extinction, annihilation