Kirtan Sohila is five short hymns and it is the most structurally interesting thing in the Sikh day. It is recited last thing at night by anyone keeping Nitnem, and it is recited over a body before cremation — the same words, in the same order, closing a day and closing a life. The hymns themselves are about the arti of the universe and the wedding of the soul, so the funeral vocabulary is nuptial rather than mournful. This is also the practical reason Sikh funerals feel short and unadorned to outsiders: there is no separate death liturgy to reach for, because the daily one already is it. The Rehat Maryada says the mourners should say Sohila and Ardas and then go home and complete a reading of the scripture, and it explicitly discourages wailing performed for show.