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Cremation - Exam 1 Questions & 100%
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Cremation
✓ -:- Reduction of a dead human body to inorganic bone fragments by intense heat
in a specifically designed retort or chamber.
Crematory
✓ -:- Physical location of the cremator where the cremation process is performed.
cremator/retort
✓ -:- Mechanical unit used in the cremation process
when is cremation thought to have begun
✓ -:- around 3000 BC in Greece
niche
✓ -:- a recess or space used for the permanent placement of cremated remains
columbarium
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✓ -:- A structure, room, or space containing niches or recesses used to hold cremated
remains.
where did cremation begin
✓ -:- scandinavia between 2200 BC to 1570 BC
1st U.S. Cremation
✓ -:- Col. Henry Laurens on a funeral pyre
Funeral Pyre
✓ -:- huge and often elaborate piles and structures of wood
modern cremation
✓ -:- Scientific process that takes place in a controlled chamber built for this specific
purpose
Dr. Francis LeMoyne
✓ -:- built 1st crematory in Washington, Pennsylvania in 1876
1st modern cremation in US
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✓ -:- Baron De Palm
before cremation societies
✓ -:- not regulated by states/municipalities, no guidance, propaganda for sanitary
necessity
Dr. Hugo Erichsen
✓ -:- founded cremation association of america in michigan, 1913
CANA
✓ -:- Cremation Association of North America; cremation association of america's
name changed to this in 1975
memorial idea began in
✓ -:- cemeteries, cremation adopted the idea
inurnment
✓ -:- cremated remains into an urn
scattering
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Cremation - Exam 1 Questions & 100%
Correct Answers- Latest Test | Graded A+ |
Passed
Cremation
✓ -:- Reduction of a dead human body to inorganic bone fragments by intense heat
in a specifically designed retort or chamber.
Crematory
✓ -:- Physical location of the cremator where the cremation process is performed.
cremator/retort
✓ -:- Mechanical unit used in the cremation process
when is cremation thought to have begun
✓ -:- around 3000 BC in Greece
niche
✓ -:- a recess or space used for the permanent placement of cremated remains
columbarium
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✓ -:- A structure, room, or space containing niches or recesses used to hold cremated
remains.
where did cremation begin
✓ -:- scandinavia between 2200 BC to 1570 BC
1st U.S. Cremation
✓ -:- Col. Henry Laurens on a funeral pyre
Funeral Pyre
✓ -:- huge and often elaborate piles and structures of wood
modern cremation
✓ -:- Scientific process that takes place in a controlled chamber built for this specific
purpose
Dr. Francis LeMoyne
✓ -:- built 1st crematory in Washington, Pennsylvania in 1876
1st modern cremation in US
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✓ -:- Baron De Palm
before cremation societies
✓ -:- not regulated by states/municipalities, no guidance, propaganda for sanitary
necessity
Dr. Hugo Erichsen
✓ -:- founded cremation association of america in michigan, 1913
CANA
✓ -:- Cremation Association of North America; cremation association of america's
name changed to this in 1975
memorial idea began in
✓ -:- cemeteries, cremation adopted the idea
inurnment
✓ -:- cremated remains into an urn
scattering
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