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Cemetery

A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite, graveyard, or a green space called a memorial park, is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred. 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]

For other uses, see Cemetery (disambiguation).

The intact or cremated remains of people may be interred in a grave, commonly referred to as burial, or in a tomb, an "above-ground grave" (resembling a sarcophagus), a mausoleum, a columbarium, a niche, or another edifice. In Western cultures, funeral ceremonies are often observed in cemeteries. These ceremonies or rites of passage differ according to cultural practices and religious beliefs. Modern cemeteries often include crematoria, and some grounds previously used for both continue as crematoria as a principal use long after the interment areas have been filled.

Corpse road

Pet cemetery

Prison cemetery

Lists of cemeteries by country

Catacomb

Churchyard

Coemeterium

Columbarium

Crypt

Grave field

Mass grave

Necropolis

Ossuary

Tomb

Tumulus

Unmarked grave

War grave

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Your Guide to Cemetery Research

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Colvin, Howard

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Etlin, Richard A. (1984). The Architecture of Death: the transformation of the cemetery in eighteenth-century Paris. Cambridge, MA: .

MIT Press

Flanders, Judith (2014). The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London. New York: Thomas Dunne Books.  978-1250040213.

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Forman, Richard T.T. (2014). . Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1107007000.

Urban Ecology: Science of Cities

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J. Paul Getty Museum

Harney, Marion (2014). . Chichester, West Sussex, U.K.: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1118508121.

Gardens and Landscapes in Historic Building Conservation

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The Garden Lover's Guide to Canada

Keels, Thomas H. (2003). . Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia. ISBN 978-0738512297.

Philadelphia Graveyards and Cemeteries

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"Preparing for an Afterlife of Earth: The Transformation of Mortuary Behavior in Nineteenth-Century North America"

Meuser, Helmut (2010). Contaminated Urban Soils. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer.  978-9048193271.

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Mickey, Thomas J. (2013). . Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press. ISBN 978-0821420355.

America's Romance With the English Garden

Mytum, Harold (2004). . New York: Kluwer Academic Publishing. ISBN 978-0306480751.

Mortuary Monuments and Burial Grounds of the Historic Period

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Salisbury, Mike. . Earthartist.com.

"From My Death May Life Come Forth. A Feasibility Study of the Woodland Cemetery in Canada"

Taylor, Richard; Allen, Alistair (2006). . In Schmoll, Oliver; Howard, Guy; Chilton, John; Chorus, Ingrid (eds.). Protecting Groundwater for Health: Managing the Quality of Drinking-Water Sources. Cornwall, U.K.: World Health Organisation. ISBN 978-1843390794.

"Waste Disposal and Landfill: Potential Hazards and Information Needs"

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Naked Barbies, Warrior Joes, and Other Forms of Visible Gender

Upton, Dell (1997). . In adams, Annmarie; McMurry, Sally Ann (eds.). Exploring Everyday Landscapes. Knoxville, Tenn.: University of Tennessee Press. ISBN 978-0870499838.

"The Urban Cemetery and the Urban Community: The Origin of the New Orleans Cemetery"

Vercelloni, Matteo; Vercelloni, Virgilio (2010). . Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum. ISBN 978-1606060476.

Inventing the Garden

Worpole, Ken (2003). Last Landscapes: the architecture of the cemetery in the West. London: Reaktion Books.  978-1861891617.

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Burch, Audra D. S. (October 15, 2022). . The New York Times.

"Nearly 'Erased by History': African Americans Search for Lost Graves. Families and volunteers seek out and restore abandoned cemeteries as a way of recovering their own personal stories"

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