"funeral ritual" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to the traditional ceremonies and customs performed to honor and remember someone who has passed away. Example: The family gathered in the church to perform the funeral ritual for their beloved grandmother, sharing memories and saying their final goodbyes.
"This seems more of a ritual, perhaps a funeral ritual".
Maybe, if they're appropriate, we fold these songs into the funeral ritual.
Ed had his close staff round to his house on the Saturday – one friend compared it to a Jewish funeral ritual – but there was champagne, and it was cathartic.
Temple foundations and procedures, festival ceremonies, epidemics, impotence, family quarrels, countermagic, royal welfare, birth, insomnia, and the manipulation of deities are among the topics of Hittite ritual; in a class by itself is a funeral ritual for royalty, reminiscent of Homeric practices.
The leader of the archaeological team, Dr. Glenn M. Schwartz of Johns Hopkins, speculated in an interview that the women could have been members of the elite and the men their attendants sacrificed as part of the funeral ritual, a practice known to have existed in contemporary Mesopotamia.
Why is it difficult to observe the existence of adult rituals in a society with highly complex funeral ritual?
In many societies, funeral rituals are believed to prevent the ghost from haunting the living.
Both the Ngbaka and the Ngbandi make clay images to be used in funeral rituals.
In 2003, a crematorium opened in Novosibirsk with the express goal of inventing new funeral rituals.
Her mother would enact elaborate funeral rituals for her pet goldfish and cats.
The Hopewell Indians of the Ohio River Valley (200 B.C.-500 A.D). harvested freshwater-mussel pearls by the quart, and burned them in their funeral rituals.
