This study is about civil funeral rites in Sweden. By interviewing people who work at funeral agencies, and a person who works as a celebrant, I have received material that I research, analyze and discuss to create more knowledge about civil funerals in Sweden. How civil funerals originated, how they are designed and created and what messages, aesthetic forms, symbols and places that they include I explore in this study. Theoretically, I use ritual theory and investigate, among other things, the function of civil funerals in Swedish society. The study shows that civil burials occurred during a time in Sweden when more and more people chose the leave the Swedish church. Civil burials became a result of people leaving the Church of Sweden. Civil burials are individual and created on their own but are often reminiscent of church burials in the design.