State funeral
A state funeral is a public funeral ceremony where people mourn, bury, and celebrate the life of someone that was very important in their country.
With a state funeral, there is usually a day in which everyone mourns the person who died. A lot of the time, a state funeral is given to members of royal families or political leaders. People who were military or high officials or heroes, or famous for other reasons also sometimes have a state funeral.
Related pages
- Funeral
- Lying in state
- List of state funerals of former U.S. Presidents and state funeral of Nelson Mandela
Other websites
Media related to State funerals at Wikimedia Commons
- The traditions of a British state funeral
- Memorializing U.S. Presidents Archived 2004-09-09 at the Wayback Machine
