interments
Putting bodies underground
Interments are burials—the acts of placing a dead body in the earth or a tomb.
The word is formal, appearing in official contexts: The cemetery records show three interments last month.
Interment may also refer to placing cremated remains in a final resting place.
Placing dead underground
- gravesBurial sites
- tombsChambers for the dead
- cemeteriesGrounds for interring dead
- coffinsBoxes for burying bodies
caskets · gravesites · funeral · sepulture · vaults · mausoleums · crypts · graveyards
Tibetan aerial interment practice
- cremationBurning the deceased
- mummificationPreserving bodies after death
- sarcophagiDecorated stone burial chests
- catacombsUnderground cemetery passages
ossuaries · tumuli · barrows · dolmens · cairns · charnel house · columbarium · ship burial
burials
Placing dead underground
- gravesBurial sites
- tombsChambers for the dead
- cemeteriesGrounds for interring dead
coffins · caskets · gravesites · funeral · sepulture · vaults · mausoleums · crypts · graveyards · undertaker
sky burial
Tibetan aerial interment practice
- cremationBurning the deceased
- mummificationPreserving bodies after death
- sarcophagiDecorated stone burial chests
catacombs · ossuaries · tumuli · barrows · dolmens · cairns · charnel house · columbarium · ship burial · burial mounds
funerals
Rites for the deceased
- servicesActs performed for others
- ritesFormal ceremonial acts
- ceremoniesFormal observances with ritual
rituals · obsequies · vigils · wakes · processions · eulogies · requiem · cremains · committal · blessing
- cemeteriescemetery, graves, grave, burial, headstones
- burial archaeologyburials, graves, tombs, burial sites, burial mounds
intermentsexhumations
Retrieval of buried corpses
exhumation · disinterring · disinterment · unearthings · unearthing
intermentsbirths
Acts of being born
christenings · baptisms · baby showers · naming ceremonies · weddings