mass funerals
Group memorial services
Mass funerals are funeral services held for multiple people at once, typically following disasters, epidemics, or acts of mass violence.
The term emphasizes scale and shared grief—communities coming together when individual ceremonies would be impractical or when victims share a common fate: Mass funerals were held for the earthquake victims.
The phrase carries somber weight, often appearing in news coverage of tragedies.
- processionFormal moving line
- gatheringCollection of people meeting
- commemorationAct of honoring memory
- mourningPeriod following loss
- memorialThing preserving remembrance
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