63. Burial

See also 99. CORPSES ; 112. DEATH

cerement, cerements

the cloth or clothing in which the dead are wrapped for burial or other form of funeral.

columbarium

a vault where the remains of cremated bodies are kept, usually in one of a number of recesses in a wall.

exequy

1. a funeral procession or cortege.

2. funeral rites or ceremony.

hydriotaphia

a burial in an urn.

necropolis

a cemetery, especially one attached to an ancient city.

obsequies

a funeral or funeral ceremony. Sometimes obsequy .

sepelition

Obsolete, burial or interment.

sindology

the study of funeral shrouds.

taphephobia, taphiphobia, taphophobia

an abnormal fear of being buried alive.

taphophilia

a love for funerals.