INDIANA STATE FUNERAL
EXAMINATION STUDY GUIDE
QUESTIONS ANSWERS WITH
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
Alternative Container
✔✔ A receptacle, either rigid or flexible, used to hold human remains that:
1. Is constructed from nonmetallic materials
2. Lacks decorative features and does not contain an interior lining
Board
✔✔ Refers to the State Board of Funeral and Cemetery Service, which
regulates funeral and cemetery practices.
Branch Location
✔✔ A standalone physical facility that meets the following conditions:
1. Owned or leased by an individual who also owns and operates a licensed
funeral home in the same or neighboring county
2. Used for the preparation of human remains following initial preparation at a
licensed funeral home
3. Used for public viewings or visitations prior to or during a memorial or
funeral service
4. Hosts funeral ceremonies that are not primarily religious in nature
Casket
✔✔ A rigid enclosure intended to encase a deceased person's body, which:
1. Is made from materials like wood, metal, or other substances
2. Includes ornamental design features
, 3. Has a fixed or removable interior lining
Consumer
✔✔ An individual who either discusses, intends to purchase, or actually purchases
funeral services or goods for themselves or for another, either:
1. During their lifetime
2. After death, typically by surviving family or representatives
Cremate
✔✔ The process of reducing human remains to unrecognizable bone fragments
through incineration, followed by mechanical or manual processing of those
fragments.
Disposition
1) interment of human remains in the earth in an established cemetery
2) interment of human remains in a mausoleum or columbarium
3) disposal of cremated human remains on the property of a consenting owner, on
uninhabited public land, or on a waterway
4) burial of human remains at seas
5) delivery of human remains within the jurisdiction of the anatomical education
program to a school, college, or physician entitled by law to receive the human
remains for the promotion of science and art of medicine or dentistry
6) other final disposal of human remains
Embalmer
A person who is licensed as an embalmer.
, Embalming
The temporary preservation and disinfection of human remains by the internal or
external application of chemicals or by other methods in preparation for
disposition.
Exempted Person
A person that does not perform any funeral services other than one (1) or more of
the following:
sells, as a seller or an agent,
1) funeral merchandise
2) cremates human remains, but does not conduct a funeral service in conjunction
with the cremation.
3) cremates human remains or holds human remains less than forty-eight (48)
hours for the purpose of cremating the human remains without a funeral service or
memorial service in conjunction with the final disposition of the cremated remains
4) performs services for a morgue, in a hospital, or other facility licensed under IC
16-21 that are directly related to the purposes of the hospital or other facility
5) performs services for a school or mortuary science that are directly related to an
educational purpose
6) arranges. supervises, or conducts a religious or memorial service for a deceased
individual if:
A- the human remains of the deceased individual are not present at the service and;
B- final disposition of the deceased individual's human remains has been or will be
complete under the authority of a funeral director having obtained a burial permit
issues by the state of Indiana
EXAMINATION STUDY GUIDE
QUESTIONS ANSWERS WITH
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
Alternative Container
✔✔ A receptacle, either rigid or flexible, used to hold human remains that:
1. Is constructed from nonmetallic materials
2. Lacks decorative features and does not contain an interior lining
Board
✔✔ Refers to the State Board of Funeral and Cemetery Service, which
regulates funeral and cemetery practices.
Branch Location
✔✔ A standalone physical facility that meets the following conditions:
1. Owned or leased by an individual who also owns and operates a licensed
funeral home in the same or neighboring county
2. Used for the preparation of human remains following initial preparation at a
licensed funeral home
3. Used for public viewings or visitations prior to or during a memorial or
funeral service
4. Hosts funeral ceremonies that are not primarily religious in nature
Casket
✔✔ A rigid enclosure intended to encase a deceased person's body, which:
1. Is made from materials like wood, metal, or other substances
2. Includes ornamental design features
, 3. Has a fixed or removable interior lining
Consumer
✔✔ An individual who either discusses, intends to purchase, or actually purchases
funeral services or goods for themselves or for another, either:
1. During their lifetime
2. After death, typically by surviving family or representatives
Cremate
✔✔ The process of reducing human remains to unrecognizable bone fragments
through incineration, followed by mechanical or manual processing of those
fragments.
Disposition
1) interment of human remains in the earth in an established cemetery
2) interment of human remains in a mausoleum or columbarium
3) disposal of cremated human remains on the property of a consenting owner, on
uninhabited public land, or on a waterway
4) burial of human remains at seas
5) delivery of human remains within the jurisdiction of the anatomical education
program to a school, college, or physician entitled by law to receive the human
remains for the promotion of science and art of medicine or dentistry
6) other final disposal of human remains
Embalmer
A person who is licensed as an embalmer.
, Embalming
The temporary preservation and disinfection of human remains by the internal or
external application of chemicals or by other methods in preparation for
disposition.
Exempted Person
A person that does not perform any funeral services other than one (1) or more of
the following:
sells, as a seller or an agent,
1) funeral merchandise
2) cremates human remains, but does not conduct a funeral service in conjunction
with the cremation.
3) cremates human remains or holds human remains less than forty-eight (48)
hours for the purpose of cremating the human remains without a funeral service or
memorial service in conjunction with the final disposition of the cremated remains
4) performs services for a morgue, in a hospital, or other facility licensed under IC
16-21 that are directly related to the purposes of the hospital or other facility
5) performs services for a school or mortuary science that are directly related to an
educational purpose
6) arranges. supervises, or conducts a religious or memorial service for a deceased
individual if:
A- the human remains of the deceased individual are not present at the service and;
B- final disposition of the deceased individual's human remains has been or will be
complete under the authority of a funeral director having obtained a burial permit
issues by the state of Indiana
