funeral customs
Death ceremony practices
Funeral customs are the rituals and practices surrounding death, burial, or cremation within a particular culture or religion.
These range from wakes and viewings to specific mourning periods, dress codes, and methods of disposing of remains.
What counts as respectful treatment of the dead varies enormously: Hindu funeral customs require cremation within 24 hours.
The phrase often appears when explaining why certain accommodations are needed.
- last ritesSacrament for the dying
- wakePath left in water
- open casketFuneral with visible remains
- cremationBurning the deceased
- sky burialTibetan aerial interment practice
sitting shiva · Día de los Muertos · coffin · mummification · keening · black veil · embalming · catafalque · burial at sea · shroud · interment · death mask · gravestone · wreath · mourning jewelry · cryonics · eulogy · ancestor veneration
- African traditionsinitiation ceremonies, naming ceremony, ancestral worship, rites of passage, tribal chiefs
- North African customstea ceremonies, wedding customs, tribal customs, desert life, nomadic life
- Baltic paganismMara, thunder god, sun goddess, earth goddess, world tree
- funeral customsburial, funeral, cremation, funeral procession, casket
- folk customsfolk dances, folk customs, burial rite, folk costumes, folk traditions
- folk traditionsfolk songs, folk dance, folk dances, folk tunes, folklore
funeral customsnaming ceremonies
Rites conferring official names
wedding customs · marriage traditions · jubilee celebrations · festival traditions · birthday traditions
funeral customscelebration of life
Upbeat funeral alternative
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funeral customsbaptismal rites
Religious water initiation ceremony
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