reinterment
Moving a grave
Reinterment is the act of burying human remains again after they have been exhumed from a previous grave.
Bodies may be reinterred when cemeteries close, when families relocate loved ones to new plots, or when remains are repatriated to ancestral lands: The reinterment ceremony brought closure to the family after decades of uncertainty.
Placing in a sepulcher
- inhumationBurial of the dead
- sepultureCeremonial burial of dead
- reburialSecond interment of remains
- coffinBurial container for remains
casket · grave · plot · cemetery · graveyard · necropolis · crypt · vault
Service honoring the dead
- memorialThing preserving remembrance
- processionFormal moving line
- ritualCeremonial set of actions
- tributeOffering of respect
eulogy · commemoration · honors · remembrance · mourning · solemnity · respect · tradition
Act of unearthing
- diggingRemoving earth below
- unearthingDiscovering something hidden
- remainsContinues in place
- skeletonInternal supportive framework
bones · forensics · autopsy · archaeology · anthropology · osteology · artifacts · mummy
Returning to one's origin
- ancestorsThose from whom one descends
- indigenousOriginating in a region
- nativeOriginating from a place
- colonialOf occupied territories
cultural · heritage · identity · sovereignty · sacred · reclamation · return · diaspora
entombment
Placing in a sepulcher
- inhumationBurial of the dead
- sepultureCeremonial burial of dead
- reburialSecond interment of remains
coffin · casket · grave · plot · cemetery · graveyard · necropolis · crypt · vault · mausoleum
funeral
Service honoring the dead
- memorialThing preserving remembrance
- processionFormal moving line
- ritualCeremonial set of actions
tribute · eulogy · commemoration · honors · remembrance · mourning · solemnity · respect · tradition · customs
excavation
Act of unearthing
- diggingRemoving earth below
- unearthingDiscovering something hidden
- remainsContinues in place
skeleton · bones · forensics · autopsy · archaeology · anthropology · osteology · artifacts · mummy · conservation
homecoming
Returning to one's origin
- ancestorsThose from whom one descends
- indigenousOriginating in a region
- nativeOriginating from a place
colonial · cultural · heritage · identity · sovereignty · sacred · reclamation · return · diaspora · fallen
- funeralsfuneral, burial, cremation, casket, coffin
- burialburial, cremation, grave, entombment, inhumation
- burial lawburial plots, burial grounds, burial records, home burial, burial vaults
- cemeteriescemetery, graves, grave, burial, headstones
reintermentexhumation
Recovering buried remains
disinterment · exhuming · disinterring · unearthing · digging up
intern, inter, interns, disinter, interment, internment, interned, interning, internments