mortuary
Where bodies wait
A mortuary is a place where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation—either a funeral home or a room within a hospital or similar institution.
As an adjective, mortuary relates to death or burial: mortuary rites, mortuary science.
The word is more clinical than funeral home, suggesting cold storage rather than viewing rooms.
Deceased human body
- deceasedNo longer living
- cadaverBody for dissection
- morgueCorpse holding facility
- coronerPublic death investigator
autopsy · forensics · shroud · pathology · inquest · necrology · body · remains
Vehicle transporting caskets
- casketBurial container
- embalmingPreserving dead bodies chemically
- wakePath left in water
- viewingAct of watching something
repose · visitation · chapel · director · pallbearer · preparation · restorative · dressing
Putting a body underground
- cemeteryPlace for interring remains
- graveSerious and worrying
- gravesideBeside a burial plot
- plotStoryline or land parcel
vault · mausoleum · sepulcher · tombstone · headstone · marker · lowering · committal
Corpse incineration facility
- retortQuick, cutting reply
- ashesBurned matter's residue
- urnDecorative container for ashes
- incinerateBurn to nothing
furnace · cremains · columbarium · inurnment · pyre · niche · scattering · memorial
Colorless pungent preservative gas
- embalmerPreserves bodies chemically
- arterialOf major vessels
- trocarPointed drainage puncture tool
- cavityEmpty space within
aspiration · injection · preservative · disinfect · incision · drainage · fluids · restoration
Period following loss
- bereavementState following loss
- sorrowDeep emotional distress
- lossBeing without something
- condolencesExpressions of grief support
sympathy · remembrance · memorial · eulogy · tribute · consolation · support · healing
Existence beyond mortality
- soulInnermost animating essence
- spiritSoul, mood, or liquor
- resurrectionRevival from death
- heavenSky or bliss
reincarnation · eternity · ancestors · transcendence · rest · peace · passage · crossing
corpse
Deceased human body
coroner · autopsy · forensics · shroud · pathology · inquest · necrology · body · remains · identification
hearse
Vehicle transporting caskets
viewing · repose · visitation · chapel · director · pallbearer · preparation · restorative · dressing · arrangement
interment
Putting a body underground
plot · vault · mausoleum · sepulcher · tombstone · headstone · marker · lowering · committal · entombment
crematorium
Corpse incineration facility
incinerate · furnace · cremains · columbarium · inurnment · pyre · niche · scattering · memorial · combustion
formaldehyde
Colorless pungent preservative gas
cavity · aspiration · injection · preservative · disinfect · incision · drainage · fluids · restoration · reconstruction
mourning
Period following loss
- bereavementState following loss
- sorrowDeep emotional distress
- lossBeing without something
condolences · sympathy · remembrance · memorial · eulogy · tribute · consolation · support · healing · closure
afterlife
Existence beyond mortality
- soulInnermost animating essence
- spiritSoul, mood, or liquor
- resurrectionRevival from death
heaven · reincarnation · eternity · ancestors · transcendence · rest · peace · passage · crossing · journey
- funeralsfuneral, burial, cremation, casket, coffin
- mortalitydeath, death knell, deceased, death rate, death acceptance
- mourningfuneral, burial, grief, bereavement, wake
- structureshouse, bridge, buildings, dome, building
- death carefuneral, burial, cremation, casket, coffin
- funeralfuneral, burial, funeral home, funeral director, casket
mortuarymaternity ward
Hospital section for childbirth
birthing center · delivery room · nursery · neonatal unit · labor and delivery