Funeral
A ceremony honoring a dead person, often involving the body, mourning rituals, and arrangements for burial or cremation.
Mourning: The emotional and social response to a death, expressed through feelings, customs, and periods of remembrance. Funerals give mourners a shared setting to express grief and acknowledge a death.
Wake: A gathering held before or after a funeral to remember and honor someone who has died. It extends remembrance beyond the central ceremony, often with family and friends.
Ancient Egyptian funerary practices: Ancient Egyptian customs for preparing, burying, and commemorating the dead, including mummification. They show how funeral rites can express beliefs about an afterlife.
Death care: The services and practices involved in caring for people after death and supporting those they leave behind. Funerals are one part of the wider work of caring for the dead and bereaved.
Ritual: A patterned sequence of actions performed according to social or religious convention. Repeated funeral actions give the ceremony structure and shared meaning.
Memorial service: A ceremony honoring a dead person that does not require the person's body to be present. It offers a funeral-like gathering when the body is absent or already interred.
Greek funerary practices: The burial and mourning customs practiced in ancient Greek communities. Their rites illustrate how public ceremony and proper burial honored the dead.
Committal service: A brief rite accompanying the placement of remains in a grave, tomb, or other final resting place. It is the disposition-focused portion that may follow a larger funeral.
Burial: The placement of a dead person or body in the ground, usually in a grave. Many funerals include or lead to interment of the body.
Military funeral: A funeral incorporating military honors for a member or veteran of the armed forces. Its honors add formal service-specific rites to mourning.