grave tending
Caring for plots
Grave tending is the care and maintenance of burial sites—cleaning headstones, planting flowers, pulling weeds, leaving tokens of remembrance.
The practice combines practical upkeep with ritual mourning, a way of honoring the dead through physical labor: She visits the cemetery every month for grave tending.
Some people tend graves of strangers whose plots have been neglected.
- cemeteryPlace for interring remains
- cemetery visitTrip to burial grounds
- headstoneMemorial slab marking burial
- flowersPlant reproductive structures
- fresh flowersNewly harvested blooms
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- funeral customsburial, funeral, cremation, funeral procession, casket
- filial pietyhonoring parents, obedience, respect for elders, gratitude, elder care
- ritualsritual, rite, ceremony, sacrament, blessing
grave tendingfuneral services
Ceremonies honoring the dead
interment · burial · embalming · body preparation · funeral planning
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