What do bunnies, eggs, and sunrise services have to do with the death of Jesus? Why call the celebration of Jesus' resurrection Easter?

Nothing really,but it it harmless fun. Names are of less import than the reality

You have problems with bunnies, eggs and sunrise services? I enjoy a good sunrise service because that's when Jesus stepped out of the tomb. Christians for centuries have celebrated the resurrection. It's pivotal to the Christian faith. As far as bunnies and eggs, we don't need them to celebrate. Jesus conquered sin on the cross and conquered death at the resurrection. THAT's why we celebrate Easter!

The Christian faith has nothing new. If you research it, you will see that every single idea of the faith has been copied from some other faith. Much of Easter was taken from pagan faiths, where rabbits and eggs symbolize fertility. The timing of Easter was the same as Passover but they changed it to help hide the fact the last supper was actually a Passover Seder. (In which case Jesus never said the things they claimed he said at the Last Supper.) One might say it is the same-o same-o religion.

The rabbit symbolizes fecundity.

The egg symbolizes new birth.

Together they tell how at Easter we experience a new birth in Christ, but it is also an abundant, overflowing birth of new life for all God's creation.

Sunrise services are simply done in remembrance of the telling of the stories of how the first discovery of the Resurrection happened as the sun was just coming up. (Mat 28.1 specifies that the women came to the tomb "as it began to dawn").

More stealing of pagan tradition by the Christians.

Easter was originally a pagan Spring festival dedicated to the goddess Eostre and celebrated in the northern territories of Europe prior to the Roman assimilation.

After christianity gained power in Rome, the bishops tried to remove this heavily popular pagan festival but due to massive public resistance, allowed it to continue with the exception that they change the mascot.

Hence, the odd name that has nothing to do with Jesus, passover, christianity, crucifixion, resurrection or the last supper and odd themes like eggs and rabbits that have even less to do with the aforementioned events.

The same thing happened to the pagan festival called Saturnalia which has now become our Christmas and does not mark the actual day that Jesus was born.

The English word easter comes from the German word for Resurrection - Auferstehung pronounced Oster -ste-hung) later reduced to Aufer Pronounces Oster from which we get easter

Sunrise is when they found the tomb empty

Bunnies and eggs is how wal-mart gets doofuses to spend money

Bunnies, eggs, and the name "Easter" all have to do with pagan festivals that happen to more or less coincide.

Sunrise services, on the other hand, have to do with the Christian story--specifically, that the "Easter" celebration is NOT about the death of Jesus, but about his resurrection, which according to the gospels was discovered around dawn.

Easter is a Pagan festival high-jacked by the Christians. Eggs are a symbol of birth which would be appropriate for a celebration of Spring. Originally it was not rabbits but hares, a symbol of fertility. None of it has anything to do with the Jesus cult.

If you really stop to look at it, the vast majority of things related to modern christian religion don't really have anything to do with traditional christianity.

Imagine transporting an ancient christian into the average modern church - they wouldn't know what the heck they were doing or talking about.