Death customs

300px|thumb|Fiume Road Graveyard|Kerepesi Cemetery, Budapest, Hungary thumb|Cemetery in China thumb|Cemetery in Kavala, Greece A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite, graveyard, or a green space called a memorial park or memorial garden, is a place where the remains of many dead people are buried or otherwise entombed. The word cemetery (from Greek ) implies that the land is specifically designated as a burial ground and originally applied to the Roman catacombs. The term graveyard is often used interchangeably with cemetery, but a graveyard primarily refers to a burial ground within a churchyar

thumb|right|A display of coffins in the office of a funeral director in [[Poland]] thumb|A casket showroom in Billings, Montana, depicting split lid coffins

thumb|Unearthed grave from the medieval Poulton Chapel

thumb|Poulnabrone dolmen, [[the Burren, County Clare, Ireland]] thumb|Dolmens in Amudalavalasa|Amadalavalasa, [[Andhra Pradesh, India]]

ancient Greek tragedy by Sophocles

thumb|upright=1.3|An electric cremator in Austria Cremation is a method of final disposition of a corpse through burning.

funerary women sacrifice

thumb|900px|Hallelujah written in Modern Hebrew Hallelujah (; , Modern ) is an interjection from the Hebrew language, used as an expression of gratitude to God. The term is used 24 times in the Tanakh (in the book of Psalms), twice in deuterocanonical books, and four times in the Christian Book of Revelation.

thumb|Requiem for Cirilo Almario|Bishop Cirilo Almario, in the [[Mass of Paul VI at Minor Basilica and Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Malolos, Bulacan, 2016]] thumb|The Requiem, in the Tridentine Mass, celebrated annually for [[Louis XVI and victims of the French Revolution, in the crypt of Strasbourg Cathedral, 2013]] thumb|270px|Requiem Mass for Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria at St. Catherine's Cathedral, [[St. Petersburg, published in a Russian newspaper, 1914]]

thumb|Technicians preparing a body for cryopreservation in 1985

thumb|right|250px|Primate and pachyderm taxidermy at the [[Rahmat International Wildlife Museum & Gallery, Medan, Sumatra, Indonesia]]

religious behaviour

artistic motif on the universality of death

thumb|Embalming was popularized in the United States during the American Civil War.|alt=Embalming surgeon at work on soldier's body

thumb|upright=1.2|A cairn a mile east of Nine Standards Rigg in the Yorkshire Dales.

thumb|Maitland, Cape Town|Maitland Crematorium, [[South Africa.]]

thumb|Portion of the death shroud of Charlemagne. It represents a [[quadriga and was manufactured in Constantinople.]] thumb|350px|Detail showing body in a burial shroud, grave of William Carstares, [[Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh (1720)]] A shroud is an item, such as a cloth, that covers or protects some other object. The term is most often used in reference to burial sheets, mound shroud, grave clothes, winding-cloths or winding-sheets, such as the Jewish tachrichim or Muslim kaffan, that the body is wrapped in for burial. A famous example of this is the Shroud of Turin.

thumb|300px|right|Memphis, Egypt|Memphis, 500 BC – Troop of funerary servant figures ushabtis in the name of Neferibreheb, [[Louvre-Lens]] thumb|260px|Four ushabtis of Khabekhnet and their box; 1279–1213 BC; painted limestone; height of the ushabtis: 16.7 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art thumb|Ushabti Figurine, Albert Hall Museum The ushabti (also called shabti or shawabti, with a number of variant spellings) was an ancient Egyptian funerary figurine. The Egyptological term is derived from , which replaced earlier , perhaps the nisba of "Persea tree".

type of public holiday

thumb|300px|The San Francisco Columbarium & Funeral Home|San Francisco Columbarium A columbarium (; pl. columbaria), also called a cinerarium, is a structure for the reverential and usually public storage of funerary urns holding cremated remains of the dead. The term comes from the Latin columba (dove) and originally solely referred to compartmentalized housing for doves and pigeons, also called dovecotes.

Islamic prayer in congregation during a funeral

structure used by Zoroastrians to dispose of their dead

wax or plaster cast made of a person’s face following death

period of silent contemplation, prayer, reflection, or meditation at a gathering, often as a gesture of respect in mourning

gold mask of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun

short epitaph or idiomatic expression wishing eternal rest and peace to someone who has died

vigil held over the dead before burial

objects placed intentionally in a grave

thumb|375px|Catafalque of nobleman Krzysztof Opaliński, 17th century [[Poland]]

public funeral ceremony held to honour people of national significance

photography genre

any of various fabrics with twisted threads, often crinkled surface

thumb|right|Jan Kochanowski with dead daughter in painting inspired by the poet's Laments

mourning in exchange for money

Tibetan funeral practice

right|thumb|200px|Grave-digger, by Viktor Vasnetsov, 1871

thumb|Ancient Roman urn made of [[alabaster]]

ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides

method of body disposal

roadside memorial for a person killed while cycling consisting of a bicycle painted white

sheets of paper burnt as offerings in various Asian religious practices

thumbFamadihana is a funerary tradition of the Malagasy peoples of Madagascar. During this ceremony, known as the turning of the bones, people bring forth the bodies of their ancestors from the family crypts, rewrap the corpses in fresh cloth, and rewrite their names on the cloth so they will always be remembered. Then they dance to live music while carrying the corpses over their heads and go around the tomb before returning the corpses to the family tomb. They believe in celebrating the life lived by the dead person.

symbols meant to show support or raise consciousness for a cause

grave art

meal preceding one's execution

alt=|thumb|Late Minoan III larnax from Kavrochori, Archaeological Museum of Heraklion

genre of poetry

Koliva, also spelled, depending on the language, kollyva, kollyba, kolyvo, or colivă, is a dish based on boiled wheat that is used liturgically in the Eastern Orthodox Church for commemorations of the dead.

ritual or ceremonial mutilation of an already dead body as a punishment

both 'baptism' and 'footwashing' are forms of ablution

allusive term for a coin placed in the mouth of the dead to pay Charon to ferry them to the underworld

week-long mourning period in Judaism for first-degree relatives

medieval head cover

thumb|right|The isolated Bali Aga village of Trunyan on the eastern shore of Lake Batur at the foot of Mount Abang. Trunyan (Balinese: ᬢ᭄ᬭᬸᬜᬦ᭄) or Terunyan is a Balinese village (banjar) located on the eastern shore of Lake Batur, a caldera lake in Bangli Regency, central Bali, Indonesia. The village is one of the most notable homes of the Bali Aga people, the others being the villages of Tenganan and Sambiran. Trunyan is notable for its peculiar treatment of dead bodies, in which they are placed openly on the ground, simply covered with cloth and bamboo canopies, and left to decompose. The in

Promession is an idea of how to dispose human remains by way of freeze drying. The concept of promession was developed by Swedish biologist Susanne Wiigh-Mäsak, who derived the name from the Italian word for "promise" (promessa). She founded Promessa Organic AB in 1997 to commercially pursue her idea. The company went bankrupt in 2015 without being able to produce a functioning facility. Critics questioned the technical feasibility of the process.

upright=1.4|thumb|Danse Macabre|Totentanz ("Dance of the Dead"), illustration from the [[Nuremberg Chronicle, by Hartmann Schedel (1440–1514)]] thumb|A death head wearing the Imperial Crown of the Holy Roman Empire, on the sarcophagus of Habsburg emperor Charles VI in the [[crypt of the Capuchin]] thumb|Upper section of the Cadaver Tomb of René of Chalon|Transi of René de Chalon. Sculpture by [[Ligier Richier, ]]

burial in a ceramic vessel

public funerary custom

Rudaali (pronounced "roo-dah-lee"; ) is a 1993 Indian Hindi-language drama film directed by Kalpana Lajmi, written by Lajmi and Gulzar and based on a 1979 short story of the same name by Bengali author Mahasweta Devi. Set in a small village in Rajasthan, the film stars Dimple Kapadia as Shanichari, a lonely and hardened woman who, despite a lifetime of misfortune and abandonment, is unable to express grief through crying and is challenged with a new job as a professional mourner. Raakhee, Raj Babbar, and Amjad Khan appear in supporting roles. Produced by the National Film Development Corporati

thumb|350px|Roman marbled glass piriform unguentarium (front and back) thumb|upright|Unguentarium carved from a 2860-carat Colombian emerald, Habsburg-Lorraine Household Treasure, [[Imperial Treasury, Vienna.]] An unguentarium (: unguentaria), also referred to as balsamarium (: balsamaria), lacrimarium (: lacrimaria) or tears vessel, is a small ceramic or glass bottle found frequently by archaeologists at Hellenistic and Roman sites, especially in cemeteries. Its most common use was probably as a container for oil, though it is also suited for storing and dispensing liquid and powdered substan