Relatives of the deceased, primarily women, conducted the elaborate burial rituals that were customarily of three parts: the prothesis laying out of the body After being washed and anointed with oil, the body was dressed During the prothesis, relatives and friends came to mourn and pay their respects.
Lamentation of the dead is featured in Greek art at least as early as the Geometric period , when vases were decorated with scenes portraying the deceased surrounded by mourners. Following the prothesis, the deceased was brought to the cemetery in a procession, the ekphora, which usually took place just before dawn. Very few objects were actually placed in the grave, but monumental earth mounds, rectangular built tombs, and elaborate marble stelai and statues were often erected to mark the grave and to ensure that the deceased would not be forgotten.
Immortality lay in the continued remembrance of the dead by the living. From depictions on white-ground lekythoi, we know that the women of Classical Athens made regular visits to the grave with offerings that included small cakes and libations.
The most lavish funerary monuments were erected in the sixth century B. Relief sculpture, statues Each funerary monument had an inscribed base with an epitaph, often in verse that memorialized the dead. On early reliefs, it is easy to identify the dead person; however, during the fourth century B.
Like all ancient marble sculpture, funerary statues and grave stelai were brightly painted , and extensive remains of red, black, blue, and green pigment can still be seen Many of the finest Attic grave monuments stood in a cemetery located in the outer Kerameikos, an area on the northwest edge of Athens just outside the gates of the ancient city wall. The cemetery was in use for centuries—monumental Geometric kraters marked grave mounds of the eighth century B. At the end of the fifth century B.
Marble monuments belonging to various members of a family were placed along the edge of the terrace rather than over the graves themselves. For example, if a husband passes away and is buried, his wife will likely be buried beside him to so they can be alongside each other for eternity.
Quite often families choose to prepay for a set of plots so they can all be laid to rest beside each other. When purchasing a burial plot in advance, you can purchase a single plot, companion plots, which are typically meant for a married couple, or family plots, which is when a small area of the cemetery is dedicated to one family.
This sense of being alongside your loved one offers a strong benefit to burial for some. Allows a Proper Goodbye. For many, a full funeral with a burial service provides the most effective way to mourn the loss of a loved one, get closure, and deal with their grief.
Witnessing the coffin being lowered into the ground often gives people the closure they need during that time and is seen by many as a proper goodbye. Still Unsure of the Benefits of Burial?
If you remain unsure if burial is the right option for your loved one, we are here to help. We encourage you to browse through our other resource pages that talk about planning a burial service and how burial has long been a part of a traditional funeral service. This information will enable correct management of the infection risk. If a resident or client dies with suspected or confirmed COVID in an adult social care or residential care setting where you are a member of staff:.
Funeral directors, in addition to faith and belief representatives, will often be the primary support to households in the immediate period after a death, including attending the home to collect and transfer the deceased. Where possible, support and advice should be provided over the phone. If you are required to meet with the bereaved but will not make direct contact with the deceased, you should:.
This advice should be followed for all deaths in the community, including if someone in the household is symptomatic or self-isolating, or if the household is isolating. If you are required to have close contact with the deceased, for example, to move them, the following precautions should be taken:. There is separate guidance for people with symptoms of COVID, or who have tested positive, and their households.
There is additional guidance for people who have been identified as a close contact of someone who has tested positive for COVID This includes mortuary staff, pathologists, anatomical pathology technologists, funeral directors and embalmers and appropriately trained volunteers.
Any member of staff who develops symptoms of COVID a new continuous cough, a high temperature, or a loss of, or change in, their normal sense of taste or smell should be sent home immediately and advised to follow the stay at home guidance for households with possible coronavirus infection. If the member of staff lives in a household where someone else has symptoms of COVID, or has tested positive for COVID, they should also follow the stay at home guidance for households with possible coronavirus infection.
If you are working with the deceased, including in temporary mortuaries, you should follow Working safely during coronavirus COVID guidance. The HSE guidance provides advice on the risks of infection from work activities involved with handling the deceased.
It also provides guidance for those involved in funeral services, including embalmers, and those involved in the exhumation of human remains. It covers the safe handling, storage and examination of bodies in hospitals, mortuaries and post-mortem rooms.
Placing a barrier, such as a cloth or mask, over the mouth of the deceased when moving them may prevent the release of droplets from the respiratory tract. Other than circumstances where body bags are recommended, their use is not essential and, the deceased may be wrapped in cloth or a shroud to manage the risk of contact transmission.
Current evidence indicates that the SARS-CoV2 virus can be present for up to 72 hours on some types of environmental surfaces. Other human coronaviruses have been identified on environmental surfaces for up to 9 days so as a precaution, the principles of SICPs and TBPs should continue to apply while deceased individuals remain in the care environment even if beyond 72 hours.
There are currently no reliable data on how long the virus can persist on the deceased under refrigeration conditions. Refrigeration should still be used, and the deceased should be considered a potential source of infection while they remain in the care environment whether refrigerated or not. Viewing, hygienic preparations such as washing and post-mortem investigations are permitted when overseen or undertaken by those trained in handling bodies of the deceased.
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