open casket
Unsealed funeral display
An open casket is a coffin displayed with the lid raised so mourners can view the deceased's body.
The term often modifies other nouns: an open-casket funeral, an open-casket viewing.
Whether to have an open casket is a personal and cultural choice—some find it helps with closure, others find it disturbing.
The family opted for an open casket so relatives could say goodbye.
- coffinBurial container for remains
- deceasedNo longer living
- lying in stateBody displayed for public tribute
- suitMatched formal garments
- folded handsFingers interlaced in stillness
embalming · visitation · viewing · paying respects · Emmett Till · closure · final goodbye · wake · posed · funeral · mortuary · preservation · grief · wood · flowers · velvet · makeup · hands
- funeralsfuneral, burial, cremation, coffin, funeral homes
- funeral homecoffin, coffins, embalmer, embalming, funeral director
- funeral ritesfuneral, bury, burial, funeral mass, burial rites
- Tangihangatapu, whakapapa, mana, mourning, grieving
open casketcremation
Burning the deceased
urn · direct cremation · green burial · natural burial · cremains
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