Pagan Roots of Modern Funeral Practice

Question 1

This is a common belief throughout many cultures through history

Answer 1

The basic right of a decent burial

Question 2

What people take for granted, the opinions which become firm premises upon which they base their final group thinking and their individual judgments without questioning the broad underlying assumptions

Answer 2

Common beliefs

Question 3

This is based in the development of common beliefs

Answer 3

The concept of the American Funeral

Question 4

The doctrine that man’s obligations are limited to an dependent alone on man and human relations

Answer 4

Humanitarianism

Question 5

The development of personal services rendered by this

Answer 5

An occupational group

Question 6

The composition of western culture today is a result of

Answer 6

Greek aesthetics and philosophy
Roman law and administrative genius
Teutonic (Germanic) vigor superimposed upon the dominant Judeo Christian tradition
Pagan cultural and philosophical roots that developed into Hebrew beliefs that became the foundation of the Christian Religion