Death Rituals

2. type of monument commemorating the death of a group of people or acts as a monument for someone buried elsewhere; a famous one is “The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier"
6. the death ritual that the Yanomami people practice
7. type of mummification usually done in Europe where the deceased is buried in a bog to naturally mummify
8. practiced by Japanese Buddhists where monks would lose all of their body fat and eventually dehydrate and die in a state of meditation
9. practiced worldwide, where the body is burned until it becomes ash
13. the Bo people from China practiced this death ritual
14. practice in Mongolia where the body is placed on top of a mountain and outlined with rocks and then devoured by hungry prey only leaving behind their outline
16. South Korean practice also known as burial beads; cremation and pressing the ashes into beads
17. type of burial practiced by the Kiribati people where the skull is taken, polished, and displayed after death
18. casts of the deceased's face with wax or plaster
20. underground area reserved for common burial; Paris has a famous one

1. practice in Florida where ashes are mixed with concrete material, shaped into a coral shape, and set on the seafloor where marine life and coral reefs would form
3. the practice of the Haida people to crush up the remains of the deceased and store them in a box in one of these to ward off evil
4. Hindu practice where the widowed wife would burn with her deceased husband
5. the type of funeral the Tinguian people hold; consists of dressing the deceased in finery, sitting them on a chair, and letting them smoke for weeks
10. name of the burial clothes wealthy people of the Han Dynasty were buried in
11. new burial offered in America where the body is sent out of Earth
12. the practice of the Madagascar people to dig up the deceased every 5-7 years and redress, re-clean, and dance with them
15. also known as a Viking Burial, a practice from Scandinavia where the deceased was placed in a ship with precious possessions and set ablaze
19. the civilization and culture where the deceased was buried with Maize in their mouths