Death and dying homework, chapter 8 – Flashcards
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Death customs of the ancient Egyptians
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A culture focused on acquiring mortuary goods and preparing for the afterlife
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The American funeral primarily focused on
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The welfare of the survivors
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Funerals are alike to other major transitions in life in that they all involve:
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Rites of passage
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David Sudnow study on death notification reveals:
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Death notification generally occurs I a consistent pattern from the immediate family to the wider community
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Approx what % of Americans knew within an hour if JFK's death?
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90%
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The funeral business is generally viewed as a:
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"Mystery business"
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FTC implemented the Trade Regulation Rule to:
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Counteract potential for abuse in the funeral business
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Normal functions of undertakers in the late 19th century:
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A merchant who supplied materials and funeral paraphernalia
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Funeral "parlors" acquired their name because:
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It became a substitute for the ceremonial room that people no longer used in their homes for viewings
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Bertram Puckle thinks funeral rites:
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Are merely a vestige of a pagan superstitious fear of the dead
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LeRoy Bowman thinks modern funerals:
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Are overlaid with such ostentation that the essential meaning and dignity of funeral rites had all but disappeared
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Jessica Mitford found modern funeral practices to be:
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Bizarre and morbid, efforts to disguise and petrify death only making it more grotesque
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Personalized funerals are also called:
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Life-centered funerals
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Excluding cemetery costs, the average US funeral now cost:
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$6,200
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President Lincoln's funeral procession increased the awareness of:
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Embalming
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FTC funeral rule requires that mortuaries:
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Get permission to embalm from PUD
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Most popular choice of casket in US is made of:
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Gasketed steel
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An experimental medical technology that freezes a corpse to the temp of solid carbon dioxide
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Cryonics/cryogenics
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What countries use cremation as their most common method of disposition?
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India and Japan
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Ashes left from the cremation process are called:
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Cremains
