All obit synonyms

noun obit

• burial — A burial is the act or ceremony of putting a dead body into a grave in the ground.
• cremation — to reduce (a dead body) to ashes by fire, especially as a funeral rite.
• entombment — The placing of a dead body in a tomb; interment.
• inhumation — to bury; inter.
• interment — the act or ceremony of interring; burial.
• planting — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
• requiem — Roman Catholic Church. Also called Requiem Mass. the Mass celebrated for the repose of the souls of the dead. a celebration of this Mass. a plainsong setting for this Mass.
• sepulture — the act of placing in a sepulcher or tomb; burial.
• services — a service tree, especially Sorbus domestica.
• exequies — (obsolete) Plural form of exequy.
• funeration — (obsolete) the act of burying with funeral rites.
• last rites — anointing of the sick.
• obsequies — a funeral rite or ceremony.
• eulogy — A speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something highly, typically someone who has just died.
• announcement — An announcement is a statement made to the public or to the media which gives information about something that has happened or that will happen.
• necrology — a list of persons who have died within a certain time.
• register — a list or record of such acts, events, etc.
• obituary — a notice of the death of a person, often with a biographical sketch, as in a newspaper.