Vocabulary
| Funeral | Funeral home / funeral parlor | Funeral home director / undertaker / mortician | Coffin / casket | Headstone / gravestone / tombstone |
| Vault | Tomb | Grave | Mausoleum / crypt | Plot |
| Embalm | Cremate | Cremation | Cremains | Crematory |
| Memorial | In memoriam | Guestbook | Wake / viewing / visitation | Military funeral honors |
| Eulogy | Grief | Mourning | Mourner | Obituary / obit |
| Hearse | Interment | Cortege | Urn | Spray |
| Sympathy | Deceased | Repose | Lie in state | Service |
| Pallbearer | Cemetery |
1. What event do we see in this picture?
2. What kind of attire are the people wearing?
3. Why are they dressed this way?
4. What is the woman carrying?
5. Do you recognize who the woman is? Can you guess which famous event this is?
6. What is a polite way of referring to a dead body?
7. Who prepares the body for burial?
8. What is the name of the process of preserving a body for burial?
9. What do you call the container the body is placed in?
10. What do you call the sadness that you feel when someone dies?
11. What is the name of the memorial service for the person who died?
12. What is another name for “burial”?
13. What is the name of the little building that a body is interred in if it does not go into the ground?
14. What is an alternative to burial?
15. What is the name of the container the ashes are placed in?
16. What is used to mark the grave?
17. How is the casket transported to the cemetery?
18. Who carries the casket to and from the hearse?
19. When a member of the military dies, how may he be honored?
20. What is a wake for a public figure called?
Paragraph: At a Funeral
What sort of mourning or funeral customs does your culture observe? How are people buried? What does a typical grave look like? Write a brief paragraph about your culture’s funeral or mourning customs.