Funeral potatoes

On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. A funeral is a ceremony connected with the final disposition of a corpse, such as a burial or cremation, with the attendant observances. The funeral usually includes a ritual through which the corpse receives a final disposition. The word funeral comes from the Latin funus, which had a variety of funeral potatoes, including the corpse and the funerary rites themselves.

Funerary art is art produced in connection with burials, including many kinds of tombs, and objects specially made for burial like flowers with a corpse. Funeral rites are as old as human culture itself, pre-dating modern Homo sapiens and dated to at least 300,000 years ago. Substantial cross-cultural and historical research document funeral customs as a highly predictable, stable force in communities. A Buddhist funeral marks the transition from one life to the next for the deceased. It also reminds the living of their own mortality.

Congregations of varied denominations perform different funeral ceremonies, but most involve offering prayers, scripture reading from the Bible, a sermon, homily, or eulogy, and music. Christian burials have traditionally occurred on consecrated ground such as in churchyards. There are many funeral norms like in Christianity to follow. Burial, rather than a destructive process such as cremation, was the traditional practice amongst Christians, because of the belief in the resurrection of the body.