Editing Funeral (section)

====Sweden====
[[File:Magnus Olsson funeral 2024-08-20-019.jpg|thumb|Funeral procession at [[Katarina Church]] in Stockholm in 2024]]
The first Swedish evangelical order of burial was given in [[Olaus Petri]]'s handbook of 1529. From the medieval order, it had only kept burial and cremation.<ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite book|editor=[[Gunnar Carlquist|Carlquist, Gunnar]] |year=1933 |title=[[Swedish reference book]]. Bd 14 |publication-place=Malmö |publisher=Svensk Upslagsbok AB |page=607}}</ref> The funeral where the priest blessed the recently deceased, which after the Reformation came to be called a reading, was forbidden in the church order of 1686, but was taken over by lay people instead. It was then followed by the wake, which was banned by the church law in 1686, when it was often considered degenerate to do dancing and games where beer and brandy were served.<ref>''Nationalencyklopedin'' multimedia plus, 2000</ref> It came however, to live on in the custom of "singing out corpses". In older times, the grave was often shoveled closed during the hymn singing. During the 17th century, homilies became common, they were later replaced by grift speeches, which, however, never became mandatory. In 1686, it was decided that those who had lived a Christian life should be ''honestly and properly buried in a grave''. It also determined that the burial would be performed by a priest in the Church of Sweden (later some religious communities were given the right to bury their dead themselves). Burial could only take place at a burial site intended for the purpose. Loss of honorable burial became a punishment. A distinction was made between silent burial (for some serious criminals) and quiet burial without singing and [[bell ringing]] and with abbreviated ritual (for some criminals, unbaptized children and for those who committed suicide). Church burial was compulsory for members of the Church of Sweden until 1926, when the possibility was opened for civil burial.<ref name="ReferenceA"/>