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The word cemetery (from Greek κοιμητήριον ' sleeping place ') [1] [2] implies that the land is specifically designated as a burial ground and originally applied to the Roman catacombs. [3] The term graveyard is often used interchangeably with cemetery, but a graveyard primarily refers to a burial ground within a churchyard. [4] [5]
An ossuary is a chest, box, building, well, or site made to serve as the final resting place of human skeletal remains. They are frequently used where burial space is scarce. They are frequently used where burial space is scarce.
Choultry is a resting place, an inn or caravansary for travelers, pilgrims or visitors to a site, typically linked to Buddhist, Jain and Hindu temples. They are also referred to as chottry, choultree, chathra, choltry, chowry, chawari, chawadi, choutry, chowree or tschultri. [1] [2]
Officially, the Roman Catholic Church prefers normal casket burials over cremations, but does allow for burials at sea of whole or cremated remains. The Church defines burial at sea as sinking remains in a worthy container to the sea bottom and final resting place.
Autohöfe, just like rest areas, provide travellers a place to refuel, as well as eat, and rest. A rest area is a public facility located next to a large thoroughfare such as a motorway , expressway , or highway , at which drivers and passengers can rest, eat, or refuel without exiting onto secondary roads.
The community's name is said to mean "resting place". [2] Though the term 'resting place' is used euphemistically to refer to the pre-contact Coast Salish funeral rights. In Hunquminum, 'qay' refers to death and dying, and a replication of the word describes the process of dying. This is possibly an allusion to the tree burials at ancient ...
Rest in peace (R.I.P.), [1] a phrase from the Latin requiescat in pace (Ecclesiastical Latin: [rekwiˈeskat in ˈpatʃe]), is sometimes used in traditional Christian services and prayers, such as in the Catholic, [2] Lutheran, [3] Anglican, and Methodist [4] denominations, to wish the soul of a decedent eternal rest and peace.
Shingō village in Japan contains another location of what is purported to be the last resting place of Jesus, the so-called "Tomb of Jesus" (Kirisuto no haka), and the residence of Jesus's last descendants, the family of Sajiro Sawaguchi. [19] According to the Sawaguchi family's claims, Jesus Christ did not die on the cross at Golgotha.