Loria is the wife of Hatil Garan, a Vhnori man whose family expects him to accept ritual death and passage to the Next Emanation in the Voyager episode Emanations.
Loria appears in the first-season episode Emanations. Her husband Hatil has been badly hurt in an accident and, by Vhnori custom, has agreed to die in a cenotaph so that he will no longer burden his family and can pass on to the afterlife they call the Next Emanation.
Loria loves him, but she takes the custom for granted. The arrival of Harry Kim, who has seen that the dead simply lie on an asteroid, shakes Hatil's faith, and Loria is distressed by his sudden hesitation: to her the ceremony is a joyful duty the whole family has prepared for.
In the end Hatil lets Kim take his place in the burial shroud and slips away to live quietly in the mountains, leaving Loria and the rest of the family believing that the ritual went ahead as planned.