general/death-customs

Procedures carried out after a person dies

Person who reports news of a death

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

Imperial China bureaucratic practice

Funeral preparation platform

Day marked by mourning and memorial activities

Funeral custom

Burial place for unknown or indigent people

Contraption for protecting graves

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

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

Ceremony for nationally significant people

Public funerary custom

Body decomposition process

Museum in Springfield, Illinois, U.S.

Funeral held for a living person

Korean funerary rites

Part of funeral procedures

Islamic prayer in congregation during a funeral

Cemetery worker responsible for digging a grave

Megalithic structure

Mourning in exchange for money

Public funerary custom

Machine or building in which cremation takes place

Display of executed criminals from a gallows-type structure

Raised bier to display a body or casket

Preventing the undead from rising

Container that encloses a coffin

Ideas concerning death and the afterlife in Norse pagan belief systems