general/death-customs

Container that encloses a coffin

Machine or building in which cremation takes place

Display of executed criminals from a gallows-type structure

Funeral preparation platform

Imperial China bureaucratic practice

Raised bier to display a body or casket

Islamic prayer in congregation during a funeral

Type of burial in which the heart is interred apart from the body

Tag of a dead person in a morgue, used for identification purposes

Contraption for protecting graves

Art of creating poems that commemorate a person's or group of people's deaths

Procedures carried out after a person dies

Day marked by mourning and memorial activities

Funeral custom

Burial place for unknown or indigent people

Body decomposition process

Preventing the undead from rising

Ceremony for nationally significant people

Public funerary custom

Museum in Springfield, Illinois, U.S.

Funeral held for a living person

Part of funeral procedures

Korean funerary rites

Person who reports news of a death

Megalithic structure

Cemetery worker responsible for digging a grave

Public funerary custom

Mourning in exchange for money

Ideas concerning death and the afterlife in Norse pagan belief systems