Burial
Interred, Interment
Inhumation

    To place in a grave; to bury.
Cemetery

Burial ground

Church yard

Cypress

    A tree, Cypress branches are used as a symbol of mourning. A traditional planting in cemeteries.

God’s acre

Grave yard

Necropolis

    A cemetery, especially a large and elaborate one belonging to an ancient city.

Yew

    A tree, a traditional planting in cemeteries.
Cemetery Workers

Sexton

Gravedigger
Cenotaph

    A monument erected in honor of a dead person whose remains lie elsewhere.
Coffins and Burial Clothes

Coffin

Cerecloth

Cerement

Graveclothes

Shroud

Winding sheet
Cremation

Cinerary urn

    Vessels used by the ancients to preserve the ashes of the dead when burned.

Columbarium (plural columbariums or columbaria)

    A vault with niches for urns containing ashes of the dead.

Niche

    A recess in a wall, as for holding a statue or urn.

Cremains

    The ashes that remain after cremation of a corpse.

Crematorium

    A furnace or establishment for the incineration of corpses.

Funeral Pile

    A structure of combustible material, upon which a dead body is placed to be reduced to ashes, as part of a funeral rite; a pyre.
Funeral Services

Bier

    A stand on which a corpse or a coffin containing a corpse is placed before burial.

Death bell

    A bell that announces a death.

Death knell

    A stroke or tolling of a bell, announcing a death:

... No man is an Island, entire of it self; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee ... John Donne, Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions [1624], XVII. Meditation

Dirge (lamentation)

    1.Music.

       a. A funeral hymn or lament.

       b. A slow, mournful musical composition.

    2.A mournful or elegiac poem or other literary work.

Elegy

    A song or poem composed especially as a lament for a deceased person.

Epitaph

    A brief literary piece commemorating a deceased person.

Exequies

    Funeral rite; the ceremonies of burial; obsequies; funeral procession.

Funeral Sermon

Kneel

    To go down or rest on one or both knees.

Obsequy, pl.=Obsequies

    A funeral rite or ceremony.

Passing bell

    A tolling of a bell to announce that a soul is passing, or has passed, from its body (formerly done to invoke prayers for the dying); also, a tolling during the passing of a funeral procession to the grave, or during funeral ceremonies.

Tolling

Wake
Funeral Societies

Collegia

    Ancient Roman funeral societies. Members in good standing were guaranteed a niche in a columbarium.

Fraternal Benefit Societies

    Fraternal societies with some sort of death benefit, especially life insurance.
Funeral Procession

Exequies

    1. A funeral procession.

Dead march

    A slow, solemn funeral march.

Hearse

Muffled drum

Pall

    1.A cover for a coffin, bier, or tomb, often made of black, purple, or white velvet.

    2.A coffin, especially one being carried to a grave or tomb.
Funeral

Funeral oration

Funeral rite

Funeral solemnity
Mausoleum

    A large stately tomb or a building housing such a tomb or several tombs.
Morgue

    A place in which the bodies of persons found dead are kept until identified and claimed or until arrangements for burial have been made.
Mortsafe

    Mortsafe. Iron bars or cages protecting a human cadaver especially in in Scotland. The mortsafe was locked to protect the deceased from body snatchers, or resurrection men.
Mortuary

    Mortuary. A place, especially a funeral home, where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation.
Mortuary Workers

Funeral Director

Mortician

Mortuary assistant

Undertaker
Obituary

Death Notice
Ossuary

    Literally, bone box. A container or receptacle, such as an urn or a vault, for holding the bones of the dead.
Sarcophagus

    A stone coffin, often inscribed or decorated with sculpture.