History of Funeral Service – AAMI Questions & Answers
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History of Funeral Service – AAMI Questions & Answers
Term funeral comes from
Latin word Funeralis
Term funeral comes from latin word funeralis meaning
Torch Light Procession
Funerals were almost always at night and "torch light led the way"
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History of Funeral Service – AAMI
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Term funeral comes from - answer Latin word Funeralis
Term funeral comes from latin word funeralis meaning - answer Torch Light
Procession
Funerals were almost always at night and "torch light led the way"
Why are funerals slow - answer so torchlight would not extinguish
Western Culture is comprised of: (3) - answer Greek Aesthetics and philosophy -
what we read
Roman Law - our system of government
Judeo-Christian tradition - America founded by religious people
Most of the death customs in the US comes from - answer England
Egyptian god of the underworld and judge of the dead - answer Osiris
Egyptians used embalming so that the soul could revisit the body after it completed the -
answer Circle of Necessity which took 3,000 years
Egyptians believed they would arise from the dead after 3,000 years and - answer
live with god thereafter
Egyptians were often unable to bury their dead because of (2) - answer the overflow
of the Nile river
keep the products of putrefaction out of the soil and generating a plague
Egyptians that could not afford to be embalmed utilized - answer Dry Burial
Dry Burial method - answer bodies buried in coarse cloth and laid upon a bed of
charcoal under 6 - 8 ft of sand
Why dry burial worked for egyptians - answer dry air and nitrous soil provided slow
and inoffensive decomposition
First Class of Egyptian Embalming reserved for - answer well to do and high of rank
,First class of Egyptian embalming was expensive and elaborate consisting of these
steps: (3) - answer 1 - Brain and viscera removed and placed in canopic jars
2 - head and body cavities washed and filled with spices
3 - Body was immersed in solution for 40 days the wrapped in linen
First class Egyptian embalming was immersed in a solution for - answer 40 days
Second class of Egyptian embalming (4) - answer 1 - Injected Cedar oil into body
without evisceration
2 - Soaked in Natron
3 - Cedar oil dissolved soft organs
4 - All that remained was skin and bones
type of salt that absorbed water - answer Natron
Third class of Egyptian embalming - answer For poorer class
Body soaked in soda for 70 days
Later they used pitch or bitumen
hard black mummy most identifiable by public utilized - answer bitumen or pitch
Canopic Jars - answer MESTA - Man headed jar
HAPI - Dog headed jar
TUAMTEF - Jackal headed jar
QEBHSENNUF - Hawk Headed jar
Man headed jar - answer MESTA
dog headed jar - answer HAPI
Jackal headed jar - answer TUAMTEF
Hawk headed jar - answer QEBHSENNUF
Most of what we know of embalming from this ear comes from - answer Herodotus
,Father of History from 484BC - 424BC - answer Herodotus
Egyptian and most early African culture used these to keep the body from touching the
earth (4) - answer Mats
Skin
Reeds
Wooden and Earthenware baskets
large ornamental coffin of stone or marble - answer Sarcophagus
man-resembling shaped commin - answer Anthropoid
EUS Egyptian Undertaking Specialist (6) - answer Kher-heb - priest or supervisor.
the one in charge
Surgeon - Chief embalmer
Scribe - made the mark for incision
Parachistes - made the incision
Apothecary - made aromatic powders, ointments, oils
Pollinctors - anointed the body with oils
EUS in charge - answer Kher-heb / priest / supervisor
EUS chief embalmer - answer Surgeon
EUS made the incision - answer parachistes
EUS made mark for the incision - answer Scribe
EUS made aromatic powders, ointments, oils - answer Apothecary
EUS anointed body with oils - answer Pollinctors
For Egyptians embalming was a ______ _____ but it was also a _______ _________ -
answer Religious ritual
physical operation
, Egyptian city of the dead
consisted of cemeteries and burial places - answer Necropolis
Egyptian places for preparation of the dead like our present day prep rooms - answer
Mortuary Temples
Greeks felt that death was - answer the harshest part of life
Early on, the greeks, felt the dead lived a - answer bodily existence under the earth
Greeks eventually believed that the dead were - answer disembodied souls
The greek ________ _____ theory accounted for the introduction of cremation - answer
disembodied soul
Greek pile of wood used for cremation - answer Pyre
_____ are credited with being among the first to cremate - answer Greeks
WRT Greeks, body was prepared by the______ - answer family
WRT Greeks, body was washed with _____ water by _____ - answer warm
women
WRT Greeks, body was laid out and dressed by______ - answer women
WRT Greeks, dead were clothed in... - answer White
WRT Greeks, body was viewed by friends and relatives for ___ day. Up to ___ days for
important persons - answer 1
7
Greek funeral processions began... - answer an hour before dawn
Greeks used a hand stretcher used to carry remains to the grave it was a - answer
Bier
Greek biers usualy carried by - answer Relatives
Friends
Paid corpse bearers
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