Death

A carcass is the body of a dead animal, particularly one that has been cleaned and prepared to be used as food.

A casket is another name for a coffin, or a small chest, like a jewelry box.

A cemetery is a place where dead people are buried. People mark the place a member of their family is buried with a gravestone.

A coffin is a box that a dead person is put into. Coffins are either buried in a cemetery, put inside a mausoleum or burnt into ashes in a crematorium.

Something is dead if it used to be alive once but isn't any more.

All living things will eventually die, but some can live for much longer than others.

Drowning is death by water or some other liquid. You can drown if you fall into water and can't swim. When your face is in the water, you can only breathe in water instead of air, and people and animals need to breathe air to live.

A funeral is a ceremony that happens soon after someone dies. Funeral ceremonies vary between different countries and customs.

A grave is somewhere you bury someone when they die. Graves and graveyards, or cemeteries, are usually only set up for people. Pets are usually buried in your backyard when they die.

Graves are usually marked with gravestones with the name of the person and when they were born and when they died written on the stone.

A gravestone is a marker, usually made of stone, that shows where a grave is and gives some details about who is buried there.

A hearse is a car that has been especially designed to be able to fit a coffin in the back, for transportation between a funeral home and a cemetery.

Before cars were invented, hearses were horse-drawn.