Above Ground
This is an indoor space that is used to house human remains
What is crypt?
Also called an underground mausoleum, these are preinstalled tombs that can hold one or two caskets and are covered with earth and grass.
What is a lawn crypt?
A memorial stone, often made of granite, that marks the head of a grave.
What is a headstone?
This is the process of breaking down human remains by fire.
What is a cremation?
What is a mausoleum?
This word means, "to place human remains in the ground."
What is interment?
This is an ornamental rectangular box with four sides that is made of wood or metal and holds the body of the deceased.
What is a casket?
Also known as alkaline hydrolysis, this process uses water instead of fire to return the body to its natural elements.
This is a large, flat inscribed stone standing or laid over a grave.
What is a tombstone?
A service typically held at a gravesite in a cemetery where an officiant recites prayers or reading and the casket is lowered into the grave.
What is a graveside service?
This burial option returns the body to the earth as naturally as possible, by not using any embalming chemicals and buries the body in a natural area without a concrete vault.
What is a green (natural) burial?
This is small area of land where a person's remains will be buried when they die (also used for below-ground burials as well)
What is a plot?
This is a lined and sealed concrete receptacle designed to protect the casket from outside elements.
This is the process of putting a deceased body into a tomb.
What is an entombment?
This alternative burial is the launching of human cremated remains into space, either into orbit, on suborbital flights, or to extraterrestrial destinations, as a symbolic or memorial tribute.
What is a space burial?