 Funeral, the funeral is a ceremony connected with the burial, cremation, or interment of a corpse, or the burial or equivalent with the attendant observances. Unitary customs comprise the complex of beliefs and practices used by a culture to remember and respect the dead, from interment, to various monuments, prayers, and rituals undertaken in their honor. Customs vary between cultures and religious groups. Common secular motivations for funerals include morningly deceased, celebrating their life, and offering support and sympathy to the bereaved. Additionally, funerals may have religious aspects that are intended to help the soul of the deceased reach the afterlife, resurrection or reincarnation. The funeral usually includes the ritual through which the corpse receives a final dispensaton. Depending on culture and religion, these can involve either the destruction of the body for example, by cremation or sky burial or its preservation for example, by mummification or interment. The differing beliefs about clanliness and the relationship between body and soul are reflected in funerary practices. The memorial service or celebration of life is a funerary ceremony that is performed without the remains of the deceased person. The word funeral comes from the Latin feud news, which had a variety of meanings, including the corpse and the funerary rites themselves. Funerary art is art produced in connection with burials, including many kinds of tombs and objects specially made for burial like flowers with a corpse.