Why this word is great
HUMATION — [Noun] The act of burial or interment; by extension, death. From Latin humātiōn-em, derived from humus ("earth") and the suffix -ātiō (denoting action or process). Unlike "inhumation" (which narrowly describes the physical act of placing a body in the ground) or "interment" (a clinical term stripped of soil and solemnity), humation carries the weight of the earth itself—dark, fertile, final. It is the slow settling of a coffin into damp soil, the scent of turned loam after rain, the quiet collapse of a forgotten mausoleum into the roots of an oak. To speak of humation is to acknowledge not just the act of burial, but the patient work of the ground that receives us.