funerary rites
Burial ritual practices
Funerary rites are the ceremonies and rituals performed when someone dies—the formal observances surrounding death, burial, or cremation.
The term encompasses everything from washing and preparing the body to prayers, eulogies, and interment: Ancient Egyptian funerary rites included mummification.
The phrase appears more in anthropological and historical contexts than in everyday speech, where people simply say funeral or memorial service.
- mummificationPreserving bodies after death
- cremationBurning the deceased
- burial at seaOcean disposal of remains
- burialPlacing deceased underground
- urnDecorative container for ashes
open casket · coffin · grave goods · ancestor worship · requiem mass · shiva · afterlife · keening · charnel house · purification rituals · embalming · lying in state · pallbearer · honor guard · grief counseling · eulogy · memorial service · Osiris
- Egyptian tombssarcophagus, mummy, burial chamber, mummies, canopic jar
- mummiesmummy, mummies, mummification, Egyptian mummy, King Tut
- Egyptian mythologyRa, Osiris, Isis, Horus, Anubis
- Egyptian religionOsiris, Isis, Horus, Ra, Anubis
- Egyptologypyramids, pyramid, pharaohs, pharaoh, hieroglyphs
- burial customsburial, burial rites, burials, burial customs, tombs
funerary riteschristening
Ceremony naming a child
baptism · baby shower · bris · bar mitzvah · bat mitzvah
funerary ritescelebration of life
Upbeat funeral alternative
jubilee · victory parade · festival · festivity · victory celebration