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Week 11: Body Disposition Flashcards

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When were pre-funerals developed?

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1990s

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Why were pre-funerals developed?

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These culturally marked age of 70,77,80,88, and 90

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Pre funerals are a chance to say _____ and are more for the ______ while funerals are for the ______

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goodbye
public
family

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What are the two purposes of a funeral?

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  1. Ritual: celebrate the life of the deceased and to accept the death
  2. Practical: disposal of the body
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What is the difference between these three things?
- Wake
- Visitation
- Rosary

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  • Wake: funeral reception where close friends and family of the deceased gather to pay their respects
  • Visitation: period of Tim in which friends are invited to meet with the family of the deceased and offer their condolences
  • Rosary: Catholic funeral rite held on the evening prior to the burial
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What is the difference between funeral service and memorial service

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Funeral: (body present) Event commonly takes place at the funeral home, church, graveside that includes music, reading of religious passages, eulogy, and prayer

Memorial: takes place after the body has been buried where people may say prayers, eulogies,

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What is the committal service?

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Main difference between this and a funeral service is the body is in an urn instead of a casket

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What is a graveside service?

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Offer mourners a chance to accompany their loved one directly to the place where they will be buried

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What are vaults/outer burial container (grave liner)?

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Outer containers that contain a casket if it is buried int he ground. A burial vault is designed to completely contain the casket and keep it dry. The concrete box contains the casket and is designed to allow rain water to drain out the bottom

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What is direct cremation and what is direct burial?

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There is no ceremonial services involved, the body is cremated shortly after passing with no embalming, viewing, or visitation

Body is buried within the several days immediately following your death, without a memorial or formal funeral service

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Name the 6 different order of services

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  1. Direct cremation
  2. Direct burial
  3. Viewing, funeral, commital, luncheon
  4. Viewing, funeral, luncheon, committal
  5. Viewing, funeral, cremation, luncheon, inurnment
  6. Visitation, memorial service, committal
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Name the 8 different methods of body disposition

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  1. Interment/inurnment
  2. Ground: person buried in the ground or mausoleum (horizontal or vertical)
  3. Water: burial at sea (body or remains)
  4. Bequeathal of body to a medical school
  5. Air: leave corpse to rot in ground, in a tree, or on a scaffold
  6. Cannibalism: (mortuary cannibalism) prehistoric times
  7. Fire: cremation (1874 American cremation movement)
  8. Resomation: involves the use of alkaline hydrolysis and hot water
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Whats the difference between interment and inurnment

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Interment: burial of a corpse in a grave or tomb, typically at funerals

Inurnment: placement of human remains in an urn and placement of such urn in a niche, crypt, or grave

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What is a green burial?

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Interment of the body of a dead person int he soil in a manner that does not inhibit decomposition but allows the body to be naturally recycled

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Talk about the history of cremation

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  • Widely practiced in ancient India
  • purpose of cremation is the purification of the soul
  • There is a preference of cremation by ancient greeks and romans
  • Shifting attitude to burial. Earlier christians drew from the Israelites and belief in paganism
  • Protestant reformers gave credibility back to cremation as a form of disposition
  • Still not widely practiced within the Judaic tradition
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16
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What does Piam et Constantem mean?

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Allowance of cremation - 1963

17
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What is Columbarium’s?

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Structure for the reverential and usually public storage of funerary urns holding relayed remains of the diseased

18
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What is memorial societies?

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Membership in an organization to receive reduced pricing for cremations

19
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What is the purpose of rituals and their values?

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  • Permission too express out distress
  • Time sensitive
  • Full acceptance of the loss (healthy sign)
  • Well defined activities (flowers, cards)
  • Expression of feelings (crying)
  • Rehearsal for entire grief process
  • Healthy interaction with the deceased
  • Gathering of family and friends
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What is FTC?

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Funeral Trade Commission- These are guidelines intended to help you, the funeral provider comply with the FTC funeral rule. This rule went into effect 4/30/1984.
- Funeral rule requires you to give consumers accurate, itemized price information and various other disclosures about funeral goods and services

21
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What were the cremation rates in 2019, 2020, 2021

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2019: 54.4%
2020: 54.0%
2021: 57.5%

22
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Name the top 5 states with the highest cremation rates

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  1. Nevada
  2. Maine
  3. Oregon
  4. Washington
  5. New Hampshire
23
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What does the funeral Rule prohibit you from?

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  1. Misrepresenting legal, crematory, and cemetery requirements
  2. Embalming for a fee without permission
  3. Requiring the purchase of a casket for direct cremation
  4. Requiring consumers to buy certain funeral goods or services as a condition for furnishing other funeral goods/services
  5. Engaging in other deceptive or unfair practices
24
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What percent of deaths are casket v cremated in 2021

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36.6% casketed and 57.5% cremated

25
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Say some history in funerals

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  • Late 1800s/early 1900s embalming took place in the home (pre-embalming : use of cooling boards)
  • Medicalization/Bureaucratization of death (decreasing mortality trends, increasing longevity, advent of the hospital system)
  • Emergence of the African American entrepreneur
  • 1963 Jessica Mitford “the American way of death” First Lady to get cremation
  • FTC (1984)
  • Green burials (2007)
26
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What do we do at the gravesites of army vets?

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Wreaths across America Omaha national cemetery

27
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What do they expect burial rates to drop yo by 2040?

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16%

28
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Name 3 different cemetery options?

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  1. Lawn crypt
  2. Mausoleum
  3. Ground burial
29
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What is a eulogy?

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  • bring comfort to the family
  • about 5 mins
  • be honest
  • don’t embarrass
  • share upbeat recollections
  • expand your eulogy to include other people
30
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Say some cemetery characteristics?

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  • US and Australia generally 50+ acres of cemetery
  • Established perimeter
  • Memorializing an individual
  • Specific addresses for each grave
  • Internal demarcation (religious groups)
  • Cemetery vs. churchyard vs. mass graves vs war cemeteries

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