1. burial when a person is placed in the ground
2. casket a box that the body is placed in
3. cemetery a place where many people are buried
4. cremation when a dead body is burned to ashes
5. funeral home where the body is kept until burial (The funeral home employees help families with funeral arrangements.)
6. funeral the memorial service and burial
7. grave where a person is buried
8. headstone a stone that marks the
grave; it tells who is buried there
9. hearse the car that carries the
casket
10. memorial service a service to remember the dead person; usually led by a pastor
11. obituary newspaper announcement of the death; tells about the
person’s life
12. passed away another word for “died.” Example: He passed away
13. sympathy card a card that is sent to the dead person’s family to show you care
1. AUTOPSY: Post mortem exam
2. BEREAVEMENT: Being grieved by the loss of a loved one.
3. CASKET: Small chest or box (coffin)
4. COFFIN: A box or chest for burying a corpse
5. CREMATION: To reduce a dead body to ashes by burning
6. CREMATORIUM: A furnace for cremation
7. CRYPT: A chamber or vault wholly or partly underground, a vault under the main floor of a church
8. DEATH CERTIFICATE: A certificate that certifies the death of a person
9. DECEASED: No longer living
10. EMBALM: To treat a dead body so as to protect from decay
11. EPITAPH: An inscription on or at a tomb or grave in memory of the one buried there
12. EULOGY: A commendatory formal statement or set oration
13. EUTHANASIA: The act or practice of killing individuals that are hopelessly sick or injured for reasons of mercy.
14. FUNERAL HOME: An establishment with facilities for the preparation of the dead for burial or cremation, for the viewing of the body and for funerals.
15. HEARSE: A vehicle for conveying the dead to the grave
16. INHERITANCE: The act of coming into possession of something
17. INTERMENT: The act or ceremony of depositing the dead body in the earth or the tomb.
18. MAUSOLEUM: Large tomb usually a stone building for places of entombment for dead above the ground.
19. MORGUE: A place where the bodies of persons found dead are kept until identified and claimed by relatives or are released for burial.
20. MORTICIAN: Undertaker
21. MORTUARY: Relating to the burial of the dead
22. OBITUARY: A notice of a persons death with a short biographical account
23. PALLBEARERS: People who help to carry the coffin at a funeral
24. PYRE: A combustible heap for burning a dead body as a funeral vile
25. REINCARNATION: Rebirth in new bodies or forms of life
26. SARCOPHAGUS: A stone coffin
27. TOMB: An excavation in which a corpse is buried
28. URN: A vessel that is particularly an ornamental vase on a pedestal to preserve the ashes after cremation
29. VAULT: A burial chamber
30. WAKE: The watch held over the body of a dread person prior to burial and sometimes accompanied by festivity