Burial facts for kids

Headstones in a cemetery

Burial is the act of placing an object or dead body into the ground.

Human bodies are usually buried in a cemetery. It is common practice in many places to put bodies into a coffin and place the coffin into a grave. The grave is then usually marked with a headstone so that people know who is there and can visit them.

In the past, often during times of war, many bodies have been placed into the same grave without coffins. This is called a mass burial or a mass grave.

Related pages

• Death
• Funeral
• Cremation

Images for kids

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  Underwater funeral in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea from an edition with drawings by Alphonse de Neuville and Édouard Riou

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  A Muslim cemetery in Sahara, all graves point across the desert placed at right angles to Mecca

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  Kanji inscriptions engraved on headstones in the Japanese Cemetery in Broome, Western Australia

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  Honor Oak Crematorium, Camberwell New Cemetery, London. Architect Maurice Webb – geograph.org.uk – 45058

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  Soldiers' dog cemetery at Edinburgh Castle

See also

In Spanish: Entierro para niños