BURIAL

[noun] - the act of putting a dead body into the ground, or the ceremony connected with thisWe went back to Ireland for my uncle's burial. [C]Nowadays many people prefer cremation to burial. [U]See also bury.A burial at sea is a ceremony in which the body of a person who has died on a ship is put into the sea.A burial ground is an area of land where dead bodies are buried.The house was built on an ancient burial ground.