Wiktionary
n. Final visit to a person nearing death, or to a person who has just died.
WordNet
n. the act of expressing respect for someone who has died; "he paid his last respects by standing quietly at the graveside"
Usage examples of "last respects".
Three priests chanted above an open coffin as mourners filed past to pay their last respects.
Forming a line facing the foot of the bed, the four samurai knelt down and paid their last respects to the Shogun with a deep bow then sat back cross-legged, hands resting on their knees, and sank into a trance-like state of meditation.
Why would you go to all the trouble to kidnap John Bruno, including the murder of a Secret Service agent, and possibly the man he was going to pay his last respects to, and then do nothing with him?
And I'm sure that von Wachtstein would like to be there, to pay his last respects to Oberst Griiner.
A lawyer himself, he moved things quickly along out of deference for Oliver's condition, and three nights later most of the family had gathered at Fonteyn House to pay their last respects.
Baranov made arrangements for the entire farm collective to pay its last respects to the dead girl.