Methods of Disposition Exam 3 Latest Questions &
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Reverence for dead,
Believed cremation began in Greece in 1000 BC,
Believed in shadowy afterlife and Elysian Fields - Correct Answer The ancient Greeks...
Separation of the soul from the body, and they believed the remnants of cremation held personal and
spiritual significance and should be entombed properly - Correct Answer Greeks believed cremation
provided...
Large pyres were built and remains were returned home for ceremony - Correct Answer When Greek
soldiers died in battle
Lay undertaker, the role was no longer a religious vocation - Correct Answer Significant element of
funeral service that came from the romans was the...
miasma - Correct Answer Theory that diseases were spread by this dangerous gaseous emission from
decaying organic matter
Dr. F. Julius LeMoyne - Correct Answer Erected America's first crematory in 1876 at Washington,
Pennsylvania
Baron Depalm - Correct Answer First cremation in modern America; scientific progress and rural
simplicity; opponents denounced it as satans errand
John L Dye - Correct Answer Built LeMoyne's crematory, also built 2nd crematory in US at Rosedale
Cemetery (first on west coast) in LA
Dr. Hugo Erichsen - Correct Answer Founded the Cremation Association of America (later changed to
CANA) in 1913:
,Promote cremation as the safe and hygienic way of disposition, became a concern over proper treatment
and respect of those who choose cremation - Correct Answer CAA was founded to...
Code of Cremation Practice to uphold high standards of ethics, education, and consumer information -
Correct Answer Member of CANA sign a
Telophase Society - Correct Answer Founded by Thomas Webber, San Diego, 1971, named after final
stage in cell division, pioneered direct cremation for profit, focused on selling cremation instead of
products and services
Neptune Society - Correct Answer Founded by Dr. Charles Derring in San Fransisco, CA 1977, offered
services instead of direct cremation, scattering at sea, wore flashy clothes and happy demeanor
Colonel Cinders - Correct Answer What was Charles Denning known as?
tried to legislate them out of business, California FDA got legislation passed that classified cremation
clubs as funeral homes, subjecting them to regulations of the undertaker controlled state Board of
Funeral Directors and Embalmers - Correct Answer How did funeral directors react to cremation
societies?
OB Frothingham - Correct Answer reverend who supported cremation, delivered sermon called "The
Disposal of our dead", thought cremation was more sanitary and spiritual than burial
find what made corpses harmless, claimed burial failed to protect from toxins and polluted both air and
water, also said god was capable of raising a cremated body - Correct Answer Persifor Frazer aimed to...
first pro cremation sermon, it symbolized a link between cremation and unorthodox religion, said
cremation's swiftness was more of a relief to the mind than burial - Correct Answer Frothingham's
sermon...
white, well-educated, middle-class men and women from Northeast and Midwest - Correct Answer
cremation movement was most popular with...
, plunging country into chaos, needed to educate them - Correct Answer Genteel reformers thought
immigrants were...
scapegoats for urban perils - Correct Answer the dead joined immigrants as...
microorganisms, or germs - Correct Answer By 1870s, miasma theory was challenged by idea
antitoxin to diphtheria - Correct Answer first major application to germ theory
wash hands, cover mouth when coughing, don't spit; they were convinced diseases were spread by bad
habits that could be stopped through proper education, cleanliness next to godliness - Correct Answer
"New Sanitarians" shifted attention from public health to private by saying you should
tradition of fire burial in Germany, German Americans heavily involved in cremation societies - Correct
Answer German ethnic groups
mixed support from American Medical Association, said cremationists overestimated danger of burial of
bodies, bury remains 4-6 feet underground - Correct Answer medical professionals
free thinkers, genteel practice - Correct Answer New England Protestant Clergy
Roman Catholics (prior to 1970), some Protestant clergy, some funeral directors - Correct Answer
Opponents of cremation
said cremation was anti-christian, done by heathens and pagans, in 1886 the vatican denounced practice
of cremation - Correct Answer Roman Catholics prior to 1970
wanted burial in sacred ground/cemeteries, said cremation was violent and vulgar practice - Correct
Answer Some protestant clergy
cemetery operators, coffin makers, undertakers, consumer culture gave rise to death experts for a profit,
embalming undertakers argued for the sanitary movement - Correct Answer Some funeral directors
