Funerals

A funeral is a ceremony connected with the final disposition of a corpse, such as a burial, entombment or cremation with the attendant observances. Funerary customs comprise the complex of beliefs and practices used by a culture to remember and respect the dead, from interment, to various monuments, prayers, and rituals undertaken in their honour. Customs vary between cultures and religious groups. Funerals have both normative and legal components. Common secular motivations for funerals include mourning the deceased, celebrating their life, and offering support and sympathy to the bereaved; a

thumb|Girl in a mourning dress holding a framed photograph of her father, who presumably died during the American Civil War thumb|Egyptian women in a sorrowful gesture of professional mourning thumb|In a painting by Félix Taunay, Baron of Taunay|Félix Taunay, Emperor [[Pedro II of Brazil and his sisters, Princesses Francisca and Januária, are depicted wearing mourning clothes due to the death of their father Pedro I in 1834.]]

method of burial

Ghanaian dancing pallbearers

rites for burial of the deceased body in Islam

march, usually in a minor key

service for the deceased in the Eastern Orthodox Church

public organized movement of mourners along a route as a funeral custom

Funeral Ceremony

aspect of history

Burial customs of ancient North Germanic Norsemen

funerary practices of ancient Greece

buddhist rites after a person's death

thumb|A Lacrymatory, at the Beja museum in Portugal.

service of the Church that accompanies a deceased person and his entourage

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