Funeral and Memorial

Funeral

Funeral noun - A ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated.

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Memorial and funeral are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Memorial" instead a noun "Funeral".

Nearby Word: funerary

Memorial noun - Something that serves to keep alive the memory of a person or event.

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Funeral and memorial are semantically related. Sometimes you can replace term "Funeral" with "Memorial", this nouns are similar.

elaborate	elaborate funeral	elaborate memorial
public	public funeral	public memorial
complete	complete funeral	complete memorial
appropriate	appropriate funeral	appropriate memorial
Other adjectives: separate, proper, empty, small, actual, entire, large, big, huge, infamous, private, personal, traditional, official, impromptu, aforementioned.

Season 8 of Criminal Minds ends with Strauss' funeral and the memorial in Rossi's house.

Source: Ending Memorial Service
Secondly is the funeral/memorial for Danny in the final episode, in which we see characters coming together that have been absent or estranged throughout the series.

Source: Series / Broadchurch
When the actor playing Compo on Last of the Summer Wine died a full three episodes were devoted to the character's death, funeral and memorial.

Source: In Memoriam

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