Since dying is something all of us will do, or that will happen to all of us, an observance held for a person who has died, does in no way discriminate between different sorts of people, and is therefore not exclusivistic. Maybe, being born is also something that happened to all of us, but it happened to us as human bodies, not as human people. When we speak of "denominational observances", it is people who perform a certain ceremony or who follow a certain custom, in this case because they adhere to a particular denominational doctrine. This is something that can be said of a person who has just died, or of a person who is voluntarily going to join us, it is not something that can be said of an infant.

To have oneself cremated or buried under the denomination of the Ananorm is not an intrinsic duty; what is the intrinsic duty of a neutral-inclusivist is that 'e must not allow 'imself or 'er fellow-adherents to be cremated or buried under an incompatible denomination. Thus, no neutral-inclusivist shall have the emblem of a supernaturalist, exclusivist and/or extremist ideology on 'er urn or grave, nor shall such an emblem be present at 'er funeral. It is only when a common ceremony is held for people of different ideological backgrounds that the emblem of another ideology may be displayed on a footing of equality with the nanacatena or another adequate symbol emblematic of the Ananormative ideals.

In the event that we do part from a dead person under the denomination of the Norm, the ceremony will usually, but not necessarily, be held before or during the cremation or burial of the corpse. Neither eulogistic nor dyslogistic speeches should be delivered at such a ceremony. Instead of eulogizing the dead person as in many religious or exclusivist observances, the Dao of Nanhonore may be read or sung, a variant of the Dao, any other canonical prose poem, and/or any poem or piece of prose whose content does not violate the principles of the Ananormative order.

The neutral-inclusive funeral ceremony should be centered on one or more neutral-inclusive themes. The first, and perhaps sole, person to choose or to have chosen these themes is the person for whom the observance is held 'imself. This includes the choice of the (variant of the) Dao of Nanhonore and/or another poem or piece of prose, and the music to be played, if any. If the death of the person (or persons) concerned is specially connected with the struggle for the realization of Ananormative ideals, it may fit the occasion very well to read the last one or two (noncanonical) paragraphs of the chapter Life and Nonlife. This is the passage in the Book of Fundamentals which precedes the Dao of Nanhonore.

Someone who wants to be cremated or buried under the neutral-inclusive denomination may also wish the ceremony to take place in complete silence, and possibly also in (almost) complete dark. If the ceremony does not take place in complete silence, the Final Anagnorisis, or a variant of it, should be read or sung to usher in at least a moment of silence.

The term anagnorisis in the final anagnorisis stands for recognition of (all-)neutrality. Symbolically, it is when all turbulence has ceased, when all impertinences are ignored, when all disputes have been settled, when all doubt has been removed, that pure perfection finally is, or can be, recognized, that is, anagnorized. Ultimately there is no false or irrelevant anagnorisis, and it is ancient symbolism (or knowledge) that every true anagnorisis ushers in stillness. It ushers in a stillness which supersedes all physical or emotional unrest and all uncertainty of belief. Not only are unneutrality, irrelevance and falsehood absent when anagnorisis is brought about, neutrality, relevance and truth are, then, not even spoken of anymore. It is this silence --the silence observed after the Final Anagnorisis has been read or sung-- which is the most solemn way of marking the end of a person's corporeal existence, the end of both pleasure and pain, when all personal hopes have been extinguished and all personal fears stilled.