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Grave, the Glossary

A grave is a location where a dead body (typically that of a human, although sometimes that of an animal) is buried or interred after a funeral.^[1]

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Bereavement in Judaism

Bereavement in Judaism is a combination of minhag (traditions) and mitzvah (commandments) derived from the Torah and Judaism's classical rabbinic literature.

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Burial

Burial, also known as interment or inhumation, is a method of final disposition whereby a dead body is placed into the ground, sometimes with objects. Grave and Burial are Archaeological features.

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Burial at sea

Burial at sea is the disposal of human remains in the ocean, normally from a ship, boat or aircraft.

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A burial vault (also known as a burial liner, grave vault, and grave liner) is a container, formerly made of wood or brick but more often today made of metal or concrete, that encloses a coffin to help prevent a grave from sinking.

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Burial vault (tomb)

A burial vault is a structural stone or brick-lined underground tomb or 'burial chamber' for the interment of a single body or multiple bodies underground. Grave and burial vault (tomb) are burial monuments and structures.

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Cadaver

A cadaver or corpse is a dead human body.

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Cemetery

A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite, graveyard, or a green space called a memorial park, is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred.

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Cenotaph

A cenotaph is an empty tomb or a monument erected in honour of a person or group of people whose remains are elsewhere.

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Chamber tomb

A chamber tomb is a tomb for burial used in many different cultures. Grave and chamber tomb are burial monuments and structures.

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Christian burial

A Christian burial is the burial of a deceased person with specifically Christian rites; typically, in consecrated ground.

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Coat of arms

A coat of arms is a heraldic visual design on an escutcheon (i.e., shield), surcoat, or tabard (the last two being outer garments).

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Coffin

A coffin is a funerary box used for viewing or keeping a corpse, either for burial or cremation.

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Cremation

Cremation is a method of final disposition of a dead body through burning.

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Crypt

A crypt (from Greek κρύπτη (kryptē) crypta "vault") is a stone chamber beneath the floor of a church or other building. Grave and crypt are burial monuments and structures.

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Dolmen

A dolmen or portal tomb is a type of single-chamber megalithic tomb, usually consisting of two or more upright megaliths supporting a large flat horizontal capstone or "table". Grave and dolmen are burial monuments and structures.

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A footstone is a marker at the foot of a grave. Grave and footstone are burial monuments and structures.

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Funeral

A funeral is a ceremony connected with the final disposition of a corpse, such as a burial or cremation, with the attendant observances.

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Funerary art

Funerary art is any work of art forming, or placed in, a repository for the remains of the dead. Grave and Funerary art are burial monuments and structures.

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God's Acre

God's Acre is a churchyard, specifically the burial ground.

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Gravedigger

A gravedigger is a cemetery worker who is responsible for digging a grave prior to a funeral service.

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Gravestone

A gravestone or tombstone is a marker, usually stone, that is placed over a grave. Grave and gravestone are burial monuments and structures.

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Grief

Grief is the response to the loss of something deemed important, particularly to the loss of someone or some living thing that has died, to which a bond or affection was formed.

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Islamic funeral

Funerals and funeral prayers in Islam (Janāzah) follow fairly specific rites, though they are subject to regional interpretation and variation in custom.

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Maqbara

The Arabic word (مقبرة "mausoleum"; plural: مقابر Maqâbir) is derived from the word Qabr, which means grave.

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Mass grave

A mass grave is a grave containing multiple human corpses, which may or may not be identified prior to burial.

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Mausoleum

A mausoleum is an external free-standing building constructed as a monument enclosing the burial chamber of a deceased person or people. Grave and mausoleum are burial monuments and structures.

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Monumental inscription

A monumental inscription is an inscription, typically carved in stone, on a grave marker, cenotaph, memorial plaque, church monument or other memorial.

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Natural burial

Natural burial is the interment of the body of a dead person in the soil in a manner that does not inhibit decomposition but allows the body to be naturally recycled.

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Necropolis

A necropolis (necropolises, necropoles, necropoleis, necropoli) is a large, designed cemetery with elaborate tomb monuments.

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Nobility

Nobility is a social class found in many societies that have an aristocracy.

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Ossuary

An ossuary is a chest, box, building, well, or site made to serve as the final resting place of human skeletal remains. Grave and ossuary are burial monuments and structures.

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Premature burial

Premature burial, also known as live burial, burial alive, or vivisepulture, means to be buried while still alive.

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Pyramid

A pyramid is a structure whose visible surfaces are triangular in broad outline and converge toward the top, making the appearance roughly a pyramid in the geometric sense.

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Pyre

A pyre (πυρά||), also known as a funeral pyre, is a structure, usually made of wood, for burning a body as part of a funeral rite or execution. Grave and pyre are burial monuments and structures.

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Religion

Religion is a range of social-cultural systems, including designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relate humanity to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual elements—although there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion.

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Soul

In many religious and philosophical traditions, the soul is the non-material essence of a person, which includes one's identity, personality, and memories, an immaterial aspect or essence of a living being that is believed to be able to survive physical death.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave

Also known as Burial plot, Communal grave, Funeral plot, Grave (burial), Grave site, Grave space, Graveness, Graves, Graves (burial), Graveside, Gravesite.

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