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Important Funeral Home Terminology
Michael Bernardo • October 21, 2019
Though pretty much everyone has or will visit funeral homes in Palisade, CO a lot of people don’t know much about them. A good place to start is with the basics. Learn more about funeral by learning the following important funeral terms:
- Bereaved: The deceased’s loved ones or immediate family. Sometimes can include friends or close coworkers.
- Burial Certificate: A legal document authorizing burial. The same documents apply to cremations, and it made by your local government.
- Death Certificate: A document proving the cause of death, generally issued by the deceased’s doctor.
- Columbarium: A wall with niches or holes in which cremation urns are housed. Usually part of cemeteries or in churches.
- Committal Service: A service in which the body is buried or interred.
- Cremains: Another word for cremated remains.
- Crematory: The furnace in which bodies are cremated. It can also refer to the building that houses the furnace.
- Death Notice: An article or newspaper section announcing someone’s death and providing funeral or memorial details.
- Embalm: Preserving a dead body by running preservative fluids through the arteries and veins. Embalming is not always necessary before a cremation.
- Eulogy: A speech praising, remembering and celebrating the deceased’s life.
- Exhume: Digging up the remains of someone who was already buried.
- Flower Car: The car or vehicle used to transport the flowers from the church and/or cemetery to the funeral home.
- Funeral Director: The man or woman who works with the bereaved to plan and execute a funeral service and all accompanying details. Generally, funeral directors maintain or run funeral homes.
- Funeral Spray: A floral tribute traditionally given to the bereaved at a funeral.
- Grave Liner: A wooden, metal or concrete casing that holds the casket in the ground. Grave liners help prevent the ground around the grave from sinking for safety and help keep the grass above the grave level as the earth settles for aesthetics.
- Pallbearers: Family, friends, or religious members that help carry the casket.
- Memorial Service: A service held to honor the deceased when the body is not present.
- Mortuary: Another word for a funeral home.
- Obituary: A death notice in a newspaper or on a website that gives a small biography of the deceased and often includes a photo.
- Plot: A piece of land, usually owned by an individual or a family, that’s reserved for two or more graves.
- Reposing Room: A room in a funeral home that stores the body until the burial or funeral.
- Vault: Almost synonymous with grave liner, but vaults tend to be more expensive. Vaults are usually made of wood, metal or concrete.
If you want to learn more about funeral home terminology or Palisade, CO funeral homes, you can reach out to Brown’s Cremation & Funeral Service. Please pay us a visit at 904 N 7th St Grand Junction, CO 81501, or give us a call at (970) 255-8888 to learn more about our funeral home services, or about funeral homes in general. We would be happy to assist you in any way we can.
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