It seems like to get to the center of this city you have to go through the graveyard. The concept is mostly unfamiliar to you, since when someone dies in Feynmark people plant undertakers in their body and have a big meal after they've matured, which ends the mourning period. Supposedly eating undertakers lets you talk to the dead person in a dream, but you've never been close enough to the deceased to have any. As far as you're concerned, a wake is just a party where grownups are talking about weird grownup stuff, which is all parties.
You know about graveyards because your gravekeeper, one of the little shop guys you found, told you about them. He said that it's important to have monuments to the dead that will last forever because it's the only way you can make sure there's proof they ever existed. He said a lot of stuff about making remembrances and rituals that you stopped listening to because it sounded like drone stuff, and you're a myd of action, and it was making you feel all weird.