What is a word for relatives of deceased?
Is there any word that refers to the closest relatives (usually the ones who lived with the dead person under one roof) of a recently (approximately about 1 month) dead person? It happens that friends and relatives from your other side of the world often come to such a group of people to comfort them
on the loss of someone precious to them.
People attending a funeral are known as a mourners.
The closest relative to the deceased can be said to be the chief mourner.
Who can be considered as a close family mourner?
I am not sure that these descriptions extend beyond the time of the funeral and its wake, however. A week later they’ll be known simply as the bereaved (hencethe name)
If his wife
is
bereaved, be
deprived of a close friend through their death: she had recently
been bereaved (as adjective bereaved)bereaved families (as noun the
bereaved) those who counsel the bereaved ODO
