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Exam 2 Notes Flashcards

1
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The specialized function of organization and direction of a memorial to a personality according to custom and tradition of the community and in compliance with state law

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Contemporary Funeral Service

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What is the purpose of funeral service?

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To serve the living by caring for their dead in some dignified fashion

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3
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The primary purpose of funeral service is

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service to the living

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4
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This will always be secondary to service in the funeral industry

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Merchandising

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5
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The ritual of funeral service is based on what?

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Dignity and tradition associated with some form of organized religion

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Funeral service provides an opportunity for the bereaved to

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Accept the reality of death

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The funeral service meets certain basic needs of whom?

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The community, especially the bereaved

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8
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The contemporary funeral service provides the bereaved with this

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A period of gradual transition

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9
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In the period of gradual transition, what do the bereaved do?

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Gradually bridge the gap from death back to life, to normalcy

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10
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In the future, for the funeral to survive and have meaning to survive and have meaning, what must it become?

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A personalized experience

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To become a personalized experience, the funeral director must find a way to honor the life and person of the deceased which will allow the family to do what?

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To grieve and give significance to a life that has been lost

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12
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The funeral director in the future will be called upon to take on what?

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A more active role

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13
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The contemporary funeral service provides an opportunity for the bereaved to

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Express emotion

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14
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Reasonable expression of grief is

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Healthy

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15
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The therapeutic value of the funeral home experience is that it is a facility where one can

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Let out there emotions

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16
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The grief work process is resolving grief over three stages:

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Normalcy - Death - Normalcy

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17
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The contemporary funeral service provides an opportunity for the bereaved to receive what?

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The comfort and solace of religious or humanistic belief

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18
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For most of society, the funeral is still basically a _______

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Religious experience

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19
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The funeral is becoming less of a religious experience, with the exception being

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African American experience

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20
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The public views the funeral director and clergy as

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Equal Partners in funeral service

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21
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If there is a dispute between the clergy and the funeral director, who must resolve it?

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The PRD

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22
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The successful funeral director will always avoid disputes with the clergy by

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Anticipating potential problem areas and taking action in advance

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23
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Every religion promises this

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Some kind of afterlife

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24
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This is significant because it offers comfort to the bereaved

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The fact that the soul goes on

25
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For any funeral director to tell a bereaved family that embalmed or placing the body in a gasketed casket or air tight, water tight vault will cause the remains to last indefinitely constitutes

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Fraud

26
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Does a funeral have to be religious?

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NO

27
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The deceased or the family may not have this

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A church affiliation

28
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We must be prepared to provide this for those families not affiliated with any church

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Meaningful services and ceremonies

29
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A direct disposition without a funeral service denies the community their right to

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Affirm the worth and dignity of the deceased

30
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A direct disposition without a funeral service denies the community an opportunity to share this necessary experience

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The reality of death

31
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A direct disposition without a funeral service denies the bereaved the opportunity to do this with the support of the community

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Transgress through grief work back to normalcy

32
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A direct disposition without a funeral service psychologically denies that

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Death has even taken place

33
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Direct disposition without a funeral service is the cheapest, safest, but not the most beneficial alternative when all of these factors are considered

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Psychological and Sociological

34
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Who deserves a funeral?

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Everyone

35
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A funeral allows for the normal expression of emotion through this

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Crying

36
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A funeral provides a freedom and a medium to

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Verbalize feelings

37
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A funeral provides support for this, provided by family and friends

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Griefwork

38
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A funeral helps to emphasize the reality of death and the realization that

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Death has occurred

39
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The funeral ceremony provides spiritual support, but does not necessarily mean this

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Church/religious support

40
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This is always the result of a smooth running and well coordinated funeral

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Comfort to the family

41
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Viewing of the deceased helps to establish

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the reality of death

42
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What are the psychological characteristics of grief?

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Shock 
Anger
Change of attitude
Remorse
Self Pity
Irrational thinking
Fear of the future
Envy of others who are not suffering
Anxiety
Guilt feelings
43
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What are today’s perceptions of the funeral?

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Plastic, barbaric

Expensive

44
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Sophisticated people feel that they are above the need for

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A public expression of grief

45
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The funeral is a vital tool in this process

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Grief

46
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Funeral directors must move from professional arranger to

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a friend

47
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A good funeral director by his/her presence lets people know

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it’s going to be ok

48
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A funeral director must be comfortable with

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tears

49
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Never adopt this attitude when designing a funeral

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keep the family under control

50
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The family should be be involved in more than this

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merchandise

51
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Participation is a way of showing

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Love

52
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Participation helps face

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Reality

53
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When word fail, what takes over?

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Ceremony

54
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Something which stands for something else

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Symbol

55
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Flowers are symbols of what?

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That a person was loved

56
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Significance must be established so that the loved ones can

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move on

57
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The family’s grieving should never be trivialized with paltitudes such as

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His suffering is over
She is in a better place
God will not put on us more than we can bear

58
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Funeral establishes

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personal and social significance

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