memorial service
Honoring the deceased
A memorial service is a ceremony honoring someone who has died, typically held without the body present.
Unlike a funeral, which usually occurs shortly after death and may include the casket, a memorial service can take place days, weeks, or even months later: The family held a memorial service at the church where she was married.
- casketBurial container
- flower arrangementsDecorative groupings of blossoms
- last respectsHonoring someone who died
- funeralService honoring the dead
- eulogyTribute for the dead
wake · open casket · burial · urn · requiem · ceremony · tribute · final goodbye · cremation · prayer · moment of silence · mourning · hearse · procession · dirge · mortuary · obsequies · pallbearers
- mourningfuneral, burial, grief, bereavement, wake
- public gatheringspublic assembly, mass gathering, concert, gathering, festival
- Church Ritesbaptizing, Holy Communion, christening, Lord's Supper, adult baptism
- death ritesfuneral, cremation, burial, natural burial, sea burial
- military eventsparade, formation, muster, military ball, reveille
- patriotic ceremoniesflag bearer, color guard, honor guard, national anthem, salute
memorial servicebirth celebration
Event honoring new life
baby shower · christening · naming ceremony · baptism · bris
service, memorial, remembering, remembered, remembrance, commemorate, memorials, memorialize, commemoration