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We do an ''agrypnia'' (stay with the dead all night), then there are the ''mnemosyna'' (remembrances) after 3, 9, 30 days and again in 3, 9 and 12 months, and 3 and 7 years (the last two not so much). There is also a special Saturday called Phycho-savvato (Saturday of the souls) in the calendar.

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