funeral service
Rites for deceased
A funeral service is a ceremony honoring someone who has died, typically held before burial or cremation.
The service may be religious or secular, featuring eulogies, readings, and music.
It serves as a formal occasion for mourners to gather and pay respects: The funeral service was held at the church where she'd been baptized.
- casketBurial container
- open casketFuneral with visible remains
- closed casketBurial container kept shut
- burialPlacing deceased underground
- cemeteryPlace for interring remains
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- mourning customswake, visitation, burial, shiva, eulogy
- Black ChurchBaptist church, gospel choir, pastor, preacher, deacons
- church eventsSunday worship, Christmas, Easter egg hunt, prayer meeting, wedding blessing
- worship servicesmorning prayer, evening prayer, midnight mass, high mass, low mass
- Jewish mourningshiva, shivah, yahrzeit, sitting shiva, mourning
- churchnave, pew, pews, altar, altars
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Pre-birth gift gathering
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Marriage rite and feast
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