Funeral

A funeral is a social gathering where friends and family of a deceased person pay their last respects unto the person and even wish him or her a safe journey to the preferred afterlife of their religion. The body of the deceased may either be put into a burial chamber or a grave, or it may be cremated with the ashes either collected in an urn or scattered as a sign that their bodies are returning to the earth that they came from.

In mainstream Smurfs media, the Smurfs held a funeral for Smurfette's pet mouse Squeaky after it had died the day following saving Papa Smurf's laboratory from being burned up in a fire.

In the EMPATH: The Luckiest Smurf story series, Papa Smurf and his little Smurfs held individual funerals for all of Papa Smurf's fellow Smurfs as they eventually died of an unknown disease that left their children as orphans under Papa Smurf's care. Empath, who was in Psychelia at the time his mother Lillithina died, was not present at her funeral and did not mourn for her until sometime after his 150th birthday, when he found out the truth of his parentage.