funerals
Services for deceased
Funerals is the plural of funeral—ceremonies honoring the dead, typically involving a viewing of the body, religious rites, and burial or cremation.
The word extends to anything resembling such a gathering in solemnity: The meeting felt like a funeral.
To say it's your funeral warns someone they'll bear the consequences of their choice.
Tribute for the dead
- casketBurial container
- hearseVehicle transporting caskets
- pallbearersFuneral procession carriers
- processionFormal moving line
wake · interment · requiem · burial · cremation · vigil · viewing · graveside
Preserving dead bodies chemically
- shroudBurial cloth or covering
- coffinBurial container for remains
- casketBurial container
- urnDecorative container for ashes
mortician · undertaker · mortuary · viewing · visitation · death certificate · pallbearer · flowers
Tribute for the dead
- obituaryNotice of someone's passing
- memorialThing preserving remembrance
- tributeOffering of respect
- legacyWhat's passed down
commemoration · homage · remembrance · celebration of life · testament · biography · ancestors · memory
Serious and worrying
- cemeteryPlace for interring remains
- graveyardPlot for interring the dead
- tombstoneMemorial stone at grave
- headstoneMemorial slab marking burial
epitaph · mausoleum · crypt · vault · columbarium · sepulchre · interment · plot
State following loss
- sorrowDeep emotional distress
- mourningPeriod following loss
- lossBeing without something
- heartacheDeep emotional distress
anguish · weeping · tears · lamentation · keening · wailing · condolences · grieving
Tibetan aerial interment practice
- pyreFuneral burning heap
- cremationBurning the deceased
- sarcophagusCarved stone burial container
- barrowLoad carrier or tumulus
cairn · tumulus · sitting shiva · ancestral rites · joss paper · ancestor veneration · death doula · green burial
eulogy
Tribute for the dead
- casketBurial container
- hearseVehicle transporting caskets
- pallbearersFuneral procession carriers
procession · wake · interment · requiem · burial · cremation · vigil · viewing · graveside · officiant
embalming
Preserving dead bodies chemically
urn · mortician · undertaker · mortuary · viewing · visitation · death certificate · pallbearer · flowers · wreath
eulogy
Tribute for the dead
legacy · commemoration · homage · remembrance · celebration of life · testament · biography · ancestors · memory · honor
grave
Serious and worrying
- cemeteryPlace for interring remains
- graveyardPlot for interring the dead
- tombstoneMemorial stone at grave
headstone · epitaph · mausoleum · crypt · vault · columbarium · sepulchre · interment · plot · churchyard
bereavement
State following loss
heartache · anguish · weeping · tears · lamentation · keening · wailing · condolences · grieving · despair
sky burial
Tibetan aerial interment practice
- pyreFuneral burning heap
- cremationBurning the deceased
- sarcophagusCarved stone burial container
barrow · cairn · tumulus · sitting shiva · ancestral rites · joss paper · ancestor veneration · death doula · green burial · mummification
- cultural heritagefolklore, traditions, customs, folk music revival, museum collections
- ceremonieswedding ceremony, wedding, weddings, graduation, graduations
- church lifechurch attendance, worship service, prayer group, youth group, church music
- collective eventsfestivals, concerts, parades, weddings, graduations
- burial customsburial, burial rites, burials, burial customs, tombs
- church serviceschurch service, weddings, high mass, communion, low mass
funeralsbirths
Acts of being born
christenings · baptisms · baby showers · naming ceremonies · birthday parties
funeralscelebrations
Organized expressions of joy
parties · revelries · jubilees · festivities · galas
- funeral directorsThose who arrange burials
- funeral homeFacility for death services
- funeral processionFormal journey to interment
- funeral insurancePolicy covering interment expenses
- funeral serviceCeremony for the deceased
- funeral marchMusic accompanying a coffin